If the "it" that you referred to was the virtual window, escape should do the trick. If it was the error message you wanted to dump, that's a whole nother story. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Sherman To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:56 PM Subject: Re: virtual buffer Hi, i believe I did that and it did not work. I will keep it in mind if and when I have to try this again. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: G.W. Cox Subject: Re: virtual buffer You can escape from that by hitting the escape key. That's all, escape key.