I am horrible at knowing where to use then and where to use than. My English 101 professor constantly got on my case about but I still had never really taken the time to figure out the proper usage. Well here are the rules from a post on WSU link I found through google.
When comparing one thing with another you may find that one is more appealing “than” another. “Than” is the word you want when doing comparisons. But if you are talking about time, choose “then“: “First you separate the eggs; then you beat the whites.” Alexis is smarter than I, not “then I.”
URL: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/than.html
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