Actually the way you wrote it is safe. timer always < 86400
start = timer so start < 86400 edge case, start=86399.98 then timer becomes 0 do while.. 0 < 86400.01 etc. easily true, so loop breaks early. An elegant solution, thanks to Windows API: Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) ' in module declarations Sleep 30 ' in code Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Domain Admin Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:36 AM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ watch does not break and can filling spreadsheet be made to scroll? Oh yeah. You have to actually paste. .Cells(maxrow, ReverseDate).Show Dim Start Start = Timer Do While Timer < Start + 0.03 DoEvents Loop On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote: Don't see the delay code you refer to, but there are solutions. you can do various math gymnastics to get back out of the corner with Timer(), or for 1-second resolution, use Application.Wait (suspends code execution for x seconds), or Application.OnTime, or Now()*86400 (for any of these, might check only every x iterations through the loop if any slowdown concern.) Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Domain Admin Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:15 AM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ watch does not break and can filling spreadsheet be made to scroll? Watch working now but I did not change anything. Weird. The following works nicely for the delay though I wonder about a corner case where the timer started just a fraction before midnight... but I could just break. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote: Try setting a watch with "break when value changes", then keep hitting F5 to resume execution after checking the current value (assuming it breaks for you). You may find that the value of maxrow is never set to 111, even if it eventually surpasses that.. it's either that, I think, or else the context scope is wrong or Exel is messing with you tonight. ===== For testing, instead or in addition to range.scroll, you might use Debug.Print to print the current cell address or other data to the debug window then scroll though it after the run is complete or at any point code execution is stopped (there is some max numer of history lines kept) To save space in the history you could terminate debug.print with a comma or semicolon (instead of going to a newline after printing, comma goes to next tab stop and semicolon simply leaves cursor in-place). Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Domain Admin Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:46 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ watch does not break and can filling spreadsheet be made to scroll? Everything for the watch set up exactly as you describe and the watch window shows exactly what you said below. But it does not break. Program runs to the end though maxrow only shows 111 even though it goes beyond that. I will figure it out. Range.show works great though as you say way faster than I can read. For using for testing I will slow it down. Thanks yet again. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote: Hi Howard, The watch should be setup like this, in the Add Watch window: Expression: maxrow = 111 Context - Procedure: (procedure with maxrow in scope) Module: (module with above procedure) Watch Type: Break When Value Is True If you look in the watch window after creating the above watch, and code is not currently executing, you will see: Expression Value Type Context maxrow = 111 <Out of context> Empty Modulename.Procedurename It just reflects the settings you used when setting up the watch. While code is running, if you are in break mode, you'll see the value of the expression maxrow = 111 (which will be True or False) in the Value column of the Watch Window as long as the listed context is in the current call stack (currently executing procedures). Code execution should stop as soon as the expression evaluates to True. > Also while the program is running it is filliing in several > columns of a sheet. Is there a way to have the sheet scroll > while filling so the filling rows are visible? Yes, but you should realize it will slow things down considerably. If it is a lot of cells getting filled in, it will take much longer, yet you will probably still end up scrolling faster than they can read. Some methods of scrolling: . RANGE.Show - scrolls so cell represented by RANGE is in center of window pane; doesn't activate it. Fails if RANGE is not in active document. . RANGE.Select - in the case of a single cell, scrolls to center of window pane; activates cell (slower) . WINDOW.ScrollRow, .ScrollColumn (also PANE.ScrollRow, .ScrollColumn) - scroll so selected row or column is at upper-left of WINDOW or PANE. Asa From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of tangledweb Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:47 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ watch does not break and can filling spreadsheet be made to scroll? I set a watch with maxrow=111 and set to break if true. Program runs and in the watch window shows maxrow=111 though also some odd message about out of context but it does not break. Program runs to the end. Thoughts? Also while the program is running it is filliing in several columns of a sheet. Is there a way to have the sheet scroll while filling so the filling rows are visible? -- FORUM RULES (986+ members already BANNED for violation) 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. 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