>There's no way, since the function always returns an empty string. The Common Dialog ActiveX control, however, can be used to do this.

George:

Perhaps you can give me some help with using the Common Dialog control to programaticlly change a feature?

If I call the ShowPrinter() method, navigate through the control, and change a setting, I then see that change reflected in the properties of the print driver. How can I send those same keystrokes from a program?

I've tried

KEYBOARD '{TAB}{ENTER}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}'

which places me in a check box for "Flip Pages Up" in my currently selected printer. I press Spacebar and watch the checkbox change.

When I added the Spacebar and finishing Enters to the KEYBOARD string, nothing changed. I modified the KEYBOARD string to have {LEFTMOUSE}, but that didn't work either.

I found a workaround for this, but it is very kludgy and has generated a different set of problems.

Any and all help is gratefully appreciated.

........Rich