As for closing all 30 wordpads,i just use a CTRL S,ENTER,then ALT F and ALT X commands,(i still aint got past the point of seeing Macro Schuler as a thing for just pressing keyboard shortcuts yet :roll: Anyways big thanks for your guidance on more graceful,effective and generally much better code wr...

That works an absolute treat now,heck it even opens wordpad for me.
I would luv to say i was gonna come up with a similiar solution,given the time...but alas i that would be a lie

Thanks

John

\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ = The break in the code..sorry about that,did`ent make it very clear,but i did not wanna paste the whole thing up,because 90% of it works fine (the find&replace bit)its just the gettting the correct window focus i was having problems with.


John

Hi, I seem to be getting inconsistant results with my macro script,somtimes it works flawlessly,sometimes it needs me to click a window for it,and sometimes it goes out of control,opening anything it can ...so my question is ,can my code be modified to make it work more consistent What i need the sc...