Dan,

The Form designer opens the .scx exclusively. So you are out of luck.

Try doing a KEYBOARD CTRL-C to get the selected text into the _cliptext memvar.

>I;m curious if there is any way to re-open the SCX file when the file is already open. Also I wanted to know if you have selected text in a method during design time, is there a way to determine what text you have selected. I know how to get the currently selected object your working on, but I can't see a way to get a hold of the selected text.