Thanks Bruce. Yes - there are obviously a number of tricks to solve the particular case though I confess I didn't think of that. However, the original simple problem was a generalisation within a larger set of facilities, so I was looking for why simple stuff like that wasn't working. Ideally I want to leave target programs alone and make scripts work round vanilla installations. Thanks for responding. David On 25/06/2012 14:26, Bruce Alsup wrote: > Dave, instead of writing a script, reclassify the status bar window class. > Then the Control+PageDown will read the status bar data for you. > > Bruce > __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts