Another way of using AppleScript or Apple Events to drive non-scriptable apps is to use QuicKeys (which is scriptable) as glue. Make sure your QuicKeys script ends by doing a process switch back to its caller, though, or your calling script will hang. --Tom ________________ Tom Cloney Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man Viadoc/Stage 1 Research muse@viadoc.com muse@csn.org Phone/Fax (508) 385-8840 World Wide Web -- http://www.viadoc.com/muse/public_html/tchome.html The sage will die undead Pots and pans depart instead. --Manly Banister +===============