I have a little experience programming in WordPerfect, (WP) but I am a
beginner at programming in Word vba.  I am trying to create a Word XP
macro with the same functionality as one that I created years ago for
WP.

Here is my latest problem, w/ which I hope you can assist.

I want to be able to provide the user  with feedback on what the macro
is doing while the macro is executing and update the feedback
on-the-fly while the macro continues to execute.

In WP, I can use the Prompt command, which displays a message to the
user and can be updated w/o interrupting the execution of the rest of
the macro. In other words, the rest of the macro continues to execute
while the dialog-box -looking message is displayed. The macro does not
stop and wait for user input while the message is displayed. Is there
a way to do this on Word, plz?

Thx much.