I have a workbook that is being updated through DDE links. I also want to
trigger the recalculation of a cell at regular intervals (every 5 seconds,
for example) while the DDE updates are happening. How can I do this? I tried
the Wait function in a macro, but this interrupts all updates. Any other
ideas?

Look at

Application.OnTime

tim

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


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I have a workbook that is being updated through DDE links. I also want to
trigger the recalculation of a cell at regular intervals (every 5 seconds,
for example) while the DDE updates are happening. How can I do this? I
tried
the Wait function in a macro, but this interrupts all updates. Any other
ideas?

You can give this a try. Place this in a standard code module...

Sub RefreshStuff()
MsgBox "Tada"
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:05"), "ReCalculate"

End Sub

sub ReCalculate()
application.calculate 'or calculatefull
end sub

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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"ÉH" wrote:

I have a workbook that is being updated through DDE links. I also want to
trigger the recalculation of a cell at regular intervals (every 5 seconds,
for example) while the DDE updates are happening. How can I do this? I tried
the Wait function in a macro, but this interrupts all updates. Any other
ideas?

Chip Pearson has lots of instructions at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ontime.htm

ÉH wrote:

I have a workbook that is being updated through DDE links. I also want to
trigger the recalculation of a cell at regular intervals (every 5 seconds,
for example) while the DDE updates are happening. How can I do this? I tried
the Wait function in a macro, but this interrupts all updates. Any other
ideas?

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Dave Peterson