see Chip Pearson's page on using Ontime

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ontime.htm

you could combine this with a selectionchange event to cancel the currently
scheduled event and schedule a new one.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/events.htm if you are not familiar with
events.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Jesse" wrote:

Can anyone point me to a reference for coding an idle timer? I have a
submission tool that multiple users access that I want to put an idle
timer on so that after a certain amount of time it gives a warning and
to long and it automatically closes the workbook.

Jesse