"Splash Screen" in WordBasic

[Jeremy's Dad]

I am cross posting to both NG as I know there is precious little
activity in WordBasic anymore. Hopefully someone in Word97VBA will
remember enough from "The Good Old Days" to answer my question.

The Word Developer's Kit from Microsoft explains that using the
"TimeOut" argument of the "Dialog" command will set the amount of time
(in milliseconds) that a Dialog Box will be displayed. I would like
to use that argument to create a "Splash Screen" but am having no
success.

If I don't place a button on the Dialog, I get an error stating that a
Dialog cannot be displayed without one. If I do place one on the
dialog, the dialog sits waiting for a button push.

I have tried adding a Dialog Function and using the Idle state as a
timer for my screen but there is no comand that I can find in the
manual to push a button once the time is reached. I have tried the
TimeOut variable inside and outside the brackets all to no avail.
I've played about with this the better part of a full afternoon.

Dummy Code is as follows:

Begin Dialog UserDialog 320, 104, "Installation Routine "', .Splash
Text 10, 15, 167, 13, "ELIGIBILITY REVIEW", .lblER
Text 10, 30, 287, 13, "Case Management System", .lblCMS
End Dialog

Dim dlgSplash As UserDialog
Start = Dialog(dlgSplash, 10)

Am I trying to achieve something that isn't possible?

Thanks for any ideas

Gary