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I can never remember the extended ascii codes and I find it tedious keep having to look them up, select them and then having to copy and paste them. So I decided to design an extended ascii virtual keyboard. The layout is intended to be intuitive with numeric keys at the top, alphabetic keys on the left, puntuation in the middle and various other symbols appearing to the right. Keys can not be held down since the virtual keyboard needs to lose focus in order to interact with other windows. The method used is an adaptation of the method used by Info in the following topic: Reading Info's thread saved me some time, and credit must also go to the MvPs who contributed to that project. Not all extended ascii characters are included. Four of the keys on the left act as letter modification locks which effect the letters a, e, i, o, u and y. If you wish to type the actual character displayed on one of the modifier keys, you must press the shift key on your main computer keyboard. To type capital letters you can use the shift key or the caps lock key on your main keyboard. PROBLEMS POSTING THE LATEST CODE The latest code did not display as intended, since the forum software is confusing part of my my code for html. The html entites are displaying as characters and not as code. You need to download the zip file below to view the source. The zip also includes the compiled script, image resources and READ ME.txt which contains important information. This script is a spin off from a bigger project, so I have only developed it to the point where it became a functional tool. I don't intend to take the development of this much further, unless by request; however I will most likely use the keypad design layout for other projects in the future. Change Log 01 Dec 2011 Change Log 31 Jan 2012 Change Log 10 Feb 2012 (including modifications to Melba23's code) Change Log 05 Jan 2013 Download the latest version of win-1252. win-1252v1.4.zip SHA-1 0C03C570A45386FBA9C4ADB0AD030DFB7D699614 Previous downloads 116 by Melba23 are now included in the zip file. I have slightly modified M23's UDF, but this change isn't a requirement. See Change Log 10 Feb 2012 above.