When feeding the two options inside quotation marks into Googlefight ( http://www.googlefight.com) you get the following: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22at+the+press+of+a+button%22&word2=%22at+the+touch+of+a+button%22 49300 results for "press of a button" 658000 results for "touch of a button" I think you could safely say that "touch" is more commonly used but "press" is acceptable. Avraham -- "When one teaches, two learn" Robert Heinlein (American science-fiction writer,1907-1988)