>Thanks for your thoughts! I just tried your ideas without success.
Just to be sure: I didn't mean talk about ***vfp's*** keyboard events,
but one of the many versions of sendkey (WSH, VB, WinAPI),
maybe in conjunction with/after appswitching.

>I think the problem may(?) be due to the way VFP 9's default ReportPreview.app works when its output is displayed in child form of a Top Level form. I'm guessing that the child form is modal and thus blocks menu access?

Haven't done much with this - probably best to create working example and ask the authors.

HTH

thomas