How to automatically run a macro at a specific time?

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I want to run a macro at a user specified time. I tried defining a variable as =NOW() and then setting up ado loop statement to say that if the variable equals the user defined time, then run the macro but that jsut seemed to crash my computer.
Any ideas?

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Format cells as time
Select range and press Ctrl+Shift+2 to format cells as time. (Shift 2 is the @ sign).
I use something like this:

Public RunWhen As Double
Public Const cRunWhat = "The_Sub"

Sub StartTimer()
RunWhen = Range("c3")
Application.OnTime earliesttime:=RunWhen, procedure:=cRunWhat, _
schedule:=True
End Sub

Sub The_Sub()
MsgBox ("Does this Work?")
End Sub

Sub StopTimer()
On Error Resume Next
Application.OnTime earliesttime:=RunWhen, _
procedure:=cRunWhat, schedule:=False
End Sub


Then I set up range("c3") to equal something like:

3/4/2002 10:08:00 AM

Start the process by simply running "Sub StartTimer()".

But I would set the timedate for sometime in the future, versus now. "Sub The_Sub()" is your procedure to run at the given time.

Hope this helps. Cheers,

Nate
This message was edited by NateO on 2002-03-04 08:16
 
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