No, this is not a DoEvents thing.

My latest app. uses the Text-to-Speech engine, so that I have an audible help file. The engine reads from a hidden textbox, which is loaded with the appropriate text for the question.

My question is...how can I create a pause in the text i.e

Text1 = " Blah, blah, blah [pause] blah, blah [pause] blah, blah"

The speech engine ignores long spaces in the text, so that doesn't work, I've tried things like [pause], but it reads
square left bracket pause square right bracket.

Does anyone know what the engine recognises as a pause?

Please help if you can, I've tried dozens of statements and have run out of ideas.

GRAHAM