Communicating with other applications

[ice9]

How can I tell a vb program running minimised to check the text area of the program in the forground to see if the text contains a certain word. An example would be to open the vb program and minimise it, then open microsoft word. The vb program would then check to see if the text writing spot in ms word contained a specific word, say "frog". If the user typed "frog" then the vb program would pop up and do something.. if that is too obscure then please ask for more detail. thank you,
NLC

[Rapmaster]

I believe this is why they invented DDE (dynamic data exchange)

but I don't really understand it enough to help you

try doing a search for DDE in VB help

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Rapmaster