Ive been reading the messages here for hours..

Ive learned a lot, but I still do not see the answer to the current problem I have.

I am creating a program that must access another program. This second program (the one Im accessing) has information in text format that I want to bring into mine to use.

I have tried the various "ctrl + A" and such to try to select all the text in that program, but have found no keycombo that selects all the text...so sendkeys appears to be out.

I have however found that the program has a function under the edit menu that does it: Select Terminal

anyhow, I need to know if there is a way that I can access menu options in another program from within a vb program...ie can I do "edit"-->"select terminal" ? then Id just do a send keys of control + c to get the text...

thanx
BT