Timer & click counter Macro's?

[Sithlyone]

Hello, I would like to ask for some help on a couple of macro's that seem complicated to me. First I would like to request that any reply's made with macros in them to be written with a lot of detail. As I am learning and have not fully come to understand all of the short hand and lingo that many here employ, written or otherwise.

Second I would like to thank you for taking the time and assisting me in any capacity, as I know you are helping out of your own time. Thank you.

Third, If these questions have been asked before, please forgive me. I have tried to search for answers but like I said earlier I do not fully understand how macros are written so I tend to get lost very easily in explanations and can't bridge the gap to apply it to my problems.

What I am looking for is two fold.

First I would like to have a timer within a calc spreadsheet. I noticed that if I bring up the control toolbar there is a "clock" that I can insert into the spreadsheet but I am unsure of how to make it work. Plus I want to be able to set it as a timer that counts down. This timer I would like to make it modifiable so as to change the amount of time, pause it, reset it or to stop it. (think stop watch)

I would also like to have a second timer built in, so that after a set amount of time goes by a counter cell goes up by 1 each time.

For example: If I set the timer to "two" minutes and press start, the timer starts counting down to "zero" and once it hits zero a "1" appears in my counter cell and the timer starts over again at two minutes counting down to zero. And once again when it hits zero the "1" in the counter cell goes up and becomes a "2" and so on, until I stop it or pause it or change it.

Which brings me to the second part of my request. I have several buttons on a page that changes certain fields. I would like to have a record of how many times those buttons are pushed.

For Instance: I would like to a have counter cell under each one. So that when a button is pushed that cell adds a "1" to it, much like the counter cell in my earlier request.

Like I said, this seems complicated to me and I am not even sure if it can be accomplished in the way that I am envisioning it. So If you don't think it will work but have another idea that might suit my needs, please pass them along.

Thanks for looking.

[Sithlyone]

Ok after some research I came across this macro that someone else wrote, however they just posted code and didn't give the whole macro and when I put it in a macro, something went wrong. I am not sure how to write this in order to make it work.

Can you tell me what else I need to do in order to make this acceptable?