Thanks, but I'm not really concerned with child windows, just the active one, and WOUTPUT() seems to be working.

Michelle

>Hi Michelle
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>I havent read through this entire thread but have you (anyone) looked at the Wchild() function? In the help file it says:
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>WCHILD - Returns either the number of child windows in a parent window or the names of the child windows in the order in which they are stacked in the parent window.
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>I use this function in a loop as suggested in the help to find the *names* of all my open windows and which one is currently on top.
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>HTH