Thanks Tore,

It worked a treat. It still does popup open and quickly goes away but I open it in such a tiny window 'you dont'c actually see it'

Mathias
>>Hi All,
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>>I have these reports created in code.
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>>Open 1 and tryin closing it without any changes, VFP brings up the save(yes/no/cancel) dialogue. That's because it applies timestamps to records, assigns unique ids to most entries and generally makes the report layout conforms to new format.
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>>What I have been trying to do is open the report and save it 'quietly'.
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>>I can do it buy involking an external script that sends a keypress "Y" to that dialogue wneh it shows up. But I am trying to clamp down on scripting so any ideas of achieving this purely in VFP please?
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>>I trying automating a server instance of vfp, sending it a key press before and after .doCmd("modify report ....") but it hasn't worked.
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>>Any ides please?
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>Keyboard '{CTRL+W}'