Q. Closing an external application?   I`m trying to write a program that will close an application after a certain period of time. Running the program (i.e. Notepad) seems easy, but I have yet to find a statement to terminate it.   A. You can use SendKeys to close a program. The following text is taken from the SendKeys example in the online help. It runs, uses and closes the calculator, but notepad would be very similar.   ReturnValue = Shell("Calc.exe", 1) . ppActivate ReturnValue' Activate calc.   For i = 1 To 100 endKeys i & "{+}", True' Send keys Next i . endKeys "=", True' Get grand total.   endKeys "%{F4}", True' ALT+F4 closes   (26-Aug-98 Bob Walsh rlwalsh@capecod.net)   A. Place 2 command buttons on a form and then paste this code into your declarations section. Press Command1 to start up notepad and Command2 to terminate it. Option Explicit Dim ReturnValue Private Sub Command1_Click() ReturnValue = Shell("notepad.exe", 1) End Sub   Private Sub Command2_Click() Dim i ppActivate ReturnValue' Activate notepad. endKeys "%{F4}", True' Send ALT+F4 to close notepad End Sub   (26-Aug-98 Rich ryarnell@andrew.cmu.edu) Downloads In IE right-click and select 'Save Target As...' or in Netscape right-click and select 'Save Link As...'    View Plain Text  Not Available  Not Available