Command Wait

The Wait command pauses the expansion for the specified number of milliseconds.

The syntax of the Wait command is {Wait} followed by a wait time in milliseconds, followed by {/Wait}, as in the following example, where the specified wait time is 100 milliseconds:

Example

The Wait command is especially useful to slow down Instant Text between two commands, when needed. In the following command used in Microsoft Word:

{Alt F8} triggers a macro window to pop up and we need to introduce a wait time to give Word the time to pop up this macro window before sending the characters m a c r o 1, else these characters may get lost and our expansion may not produce what we designed it for.