Harry,It would be a great help if I knew a way to have an XPL program make Win think I pressed a certain key. Then it could be picked up by AuthoHotkey.Try this. Uses GoXy.exe. XPLeNCODE v2.0 (ENCODE.EXE) b-gin [UNTITLED] {<}SX50,{<}VA$ED{>}{>}[JM_]2.GetPath[Q2_][BX_]dos/nv/x/z /c {<} PV50{>}\goxy.exe "{123}self{125}" /key(ALSP)dkey(ET)l[Q2_] -nd XPLeNCODE -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx