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Pause outlook vba without freezing application

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esib

IS-IT--Management
Sep 10, 2004
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Hello

I have spun my wheels enough, and now need some help.

I have a reminder in outlook set for every Friday, to tell me to update a status file. I often just dismiss it and then get very off track and do not remember to update the file until the weekend. I want to put some code in the reminder event that recognizes this reminder and checks the excel file to make sure I actually updated it. I have everything figured out, with respect to checking the file.

I would now like to make the macro pause 10 minutes and check again. It will keep doing this and creat a popup to remind me every tem minutes, until I actually update the file. How can I make the code pause, before checking again? I have tried the Sleep method, but that freezes outlook completely. I need the code to pause, while allowing outlook to funtion normally. Is this possible? Should I be going for some other approach?

Thank you for any help!!
 
Please disregard this posting. I was able to accomplish my goal through using the API Timer Functions.

Thanks
 
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