Hi Albert.

Perhaps KEYBOARD '{CTRL+C}' or SYS(1500, '_MED_COPY', '_MEDIT') would work for you. However:

>I have to clarify: I have not found that the "beautify" app formats code the way I would like so I would like to highlight code in the code editor and fire my own app to format the code. So after highlighting the text, I would like to press a function key to format what I have highlighted.
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>First step it seems to me is to get the text into a var that I can use so I thought of copying it to the clipboard, then to a var, manipulate it and then put it back by pasting in to the same spot.

Since you want to manipulate text in a VFP editor, you might want to take a look at the _ED* functions in FoxTools.FLL. They were specifically designed to select text, retrieve text, replace text, etc. from code windows.

Doug