Hi guys, thanks for the response.

Sorry when I put the word timer I did not mean how long it takes for the user to type the material. I mean time it would take to read out aloud the video script. The vba script calculates this time based on the average number of words you read per minute against the number of words in the document. This then give the person who is writing the video script a rough estimate on how long it will take them to read it aloud.

This is the same calculation a news reporter uses when they are presenting a news story to give an indication on how long the news bulletin is going to run (I know because I use to build and install news room computers ).

This bit of the script is working fine, what I was looking for was some way I could dynamically update the calculates as they user types out the video script, in the same way word updates the words counter on the status bar when you are writing a document.

I will play around with do and sleep to see if this works, but I am guessing this is going to slow down the PC.

By the sounds of it there isn’t a way of updating the information so as fumei suggests I will just have to get the user to hit the macro key periodically to get the latest figure.

Thanks for your help.