Hi Calvin --

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At this rate by the year 2010 I will be a real Windows programmer! Thanks for all your help. Finding out the right win functions to call and the order to call them is can be a time consuming and frustrating affair.
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Hey, I just realized one of the articles I pointed you to was 16-bit. Sorry 'bout that. Here's one that seems much more tailored to your specific needs:

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q186/7/22.ASP

Later...   Karl