>1. Our users are somewhat anti computer people and we are finding the act of popping up the Tablet Input Panel as frustrating for them. I am quite sure there must be a way to bring this up with an API call or something from within VFP. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

First, go download Tablet PC SDK 1.5 that was released recently. Now go look in the docs for the PenInputPanel object. In 1.0, there was no way to programatically instantiate the PIP. The new PIP object apparently allows you to do this. Disclaimer: I have not used this object myself, so I know no more than is in the docs.

>2. How do I find out if the tablet screen is in portrait or landscape mode?

Mode doesn't really matter, since it's a simple matter of screen resolution. I'm sure there are utilities on the UT that allow you to find the resolution.