John,

Maybe...
"How To Use a 32-Bit Application to Determine When a Shelled Process Ends"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=129796

Regards,
Jim Cone
San Francisco, CA

"John Tolman"
wrote in message ...
Is there a way to create a time delay in a macro. I would like excel to wait,
say 5 minutes, while an external script triggered by that same macro finishes running.