Hi: I hope you find a way but I use the Properties window to One method isGo to the Forms Designer and tab or arrow to your control, Right Mouse click it and select Properties from the Context Box. Another way is to set focus to the desired control and under the view tab of the MenuBar you can arrow down to Properties and hit enter. I think you can do this method from inside the Code Editor as well but I'm not sure the Events ToolBar button was exposed. Also there is a hot key you can hit when focus is on your control in the Forms Designer or your Control is highlighted in the Text Editor if I remember. However you get to the Properties Page: you can verify you are in the right control by tabbing around until you get to the table of properties for your control, arrow up and down to check the name or id of it. Just to the left of the list of properties, tab left once, is a ToolBar. It will say something like quote Categorized and, or, alphabetical . These are buttons to sort your list of Properties in the following table. Right arrowing again once or twice will expose a button labeled quote Events. click it and the list of events for your control is shown. You can then select one of them by hitting enter on it. Your screen view will be changed and you will be placed in the Text Editor and the Sub for that event. The most common event is the Click Event for a button and this is where you will write the code to be executed when the button is clicked by someone using your application.I hope you find out how to use the method you described, it would be allot faster and easier than switching around all the time. Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Valiant on laptop To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:49 AM Subject: visual basic express addition 2008 question reguarding being able to list available events for controls on the IDE Hi. Sorry if you get this message twice. I got confused about which email address was subscribed to this list and the one I did originally send it to was the wrong one. I'm assuming it won't get through so i'm going ahead and sending through the proper address. I've been messing around with visual basic express addition 2008, reading help files and things like that to learn a thing or two. I've hit a little issue I can't figure out how to get around. I want to take the button I have on my form, and I want to be able to look at a list of events available for the button and choose one. The help instructs me to add my button to my form, then open the code editer. It says there's a drop down box at the top left and the top right of the screen. It says the top left drop down box will list the controls on my form so button1, and have a couple extras like form1 and general. It said make sure button1 is selected, and on the right drop down box you get a list of events for that button e.g. clicking the button, moving the mouse over it, moving the mouse away, etc. But when I go to the code editer f7 after adding my button, I find that i'm unable to move out of the text area with the code code in it. I can look around with the jaws cursor just under the menu bar I found the word general, at the beginning of one of the lines, and the help says that's one of the options that will be in that left drop down box that lists the controls on my form. That computes, but what i'm wondering is, how can I do this? I seam to be unable to get into these drop down boxes because i'm actually stuck in the code edite's text area. I can't find alternative ways to do this from the menus. Any suggestions? Thanks Regards: Aaron T. Spears (valiant) valiant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Website - http://aarontech.randylaptop.com Windows Live Messenger: a1t2s3_89@xxxxxxxxxxx - AOL IM: computeruser89 - skype: aarontech.valiant Beta Testing System Information - Alienware Area 5551m Notebook System Intel core 2 duo: 2.16ghz (4mb cash) - 2.0gb DDR2SDRAM 667mhz ATI Radion 128mb dedicated video, 80gb SATA 7,200 rpm hard drive Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 - all up to date