The best way to set a timer to time your macros

Article contributed by Rod Gill

You may sometimes want to compare two different ways of coding something, in order to find out which method runs faster. VBA has a function called Timer. It returns a Single representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight.

Under Windows, the Timer function returns fractional portions of a second (up to 7 decimal places, making it, in effect, a millisecond timer).

On the Macintosh, the resolution is one second.

So to time your macros, use:

Dim StartTime as Single
StartTime = Timer
'Rest of your code here
MsgBox "Time taken was: "& (Timer-StartTime) & " seconds"