Alacritiouses code should work, lemme just make it so you can copy and paste it into your form.

VB Code:
  1. 'Module!
  2. Public Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long
  3.  
  4. private Sub Pause(Length As Long)
  5. Dim OldTime As Long
  6. OldTime = GetTickCount
  7. Do
  8. DoEvents
  9. If GetTickCount >= OldTime + Length Then Exit Do
  10. Loop
  11. End Sub
  12.  
  13. private sub form_activate
  14. dim strmessage as string
  15. strmessage = "this is a test"
  16. Dim i As Integer
  17. For i = 1 To Len(strMessage)
  18. Label1.Caption = Label1.Caption & Mid$(strMessage, i, 1)
  19. Pause (100)
  20. Next
  21.  
  22. end sub

that should work, just make sure to put a label on the form before you run it.