>I have a project where I need to automate Internet Explorer to read data from a website. The data must be read from a page which is a popup page activated by clicking some text on the main URL. But since many users have disabled popups, I need to programmatically press the shift key before I programmatically press the text. Something like

>lox=Createobject('internetexplorer.application')
>lox.Navigate('http://www.someurl.com/somepage')
>if navcomplete(lox,lntime)
>   ** Press shift key
>   lox.document.all.Main.contentWindow.document.all.minf0.click()
>Endif

>Can someone help me with code to simulate that the shift key is pressed?

How about keybd_event API?

#define VK_SHIFT 0x10

*** From news2news
#define KEYEVENTF_KEYUP 2
DECLARE keybd_event IN user32;
    SHORT bVk,;
    SHORT bScan,;
    INTEGER dwFlags,;
    INTEGER dwExtraInfo

lox=Createobject('internetexplorer.application')
lox.Navigate('http://www.someurl.com/somepage')
if navcomplete(lox,lntime)
   =keybd_event(VK_SHIFT, 0, 0, 0)
    DOEVENTS
   lox.document.all.Main.contentWindow.document.all.minf0.click()
   =keybd_event(VK_SHIFT, 0,  KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)
Endif

NOT TESTED!