I have a VB app that opens excel spreadsheets. Sometimes when the spreadsheet is corrupt excel terminates abnormally and causes a DR Watson error, which displays a modal dialog box. Is there any way of getting VB to either pass a key stroke ( to cancel the box, this box is only a notification message) or terminate this dialog box so the VB app may continue. It appears that the code in VB is halted at the point when the Dr Watson message appears. Control only seems to pass back to VB when you cancel or Ok the dialog box.