more keys on keybd_event

**ilkamalo** · 03-05-2010, 02:37 PM

hi to all ,
usually i use this to send key stroke (better than "send key" on my PC):

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but bow i need to send :shift+ctrl+arrows left
to select a text ,and i am not able to send more than one keystroke can someone help me
many thanks , all the best

**Leith Ross** · 03-05-2010, 03:34 PM

Ciao ilkamalo,

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**keymuu** · 11-23-2012, 07:20 AM

Leith Ross!

Nice, but incomplete set of special keys Shift, Ctrl,

however, ALT is missing,

of course it was not needed in ilkamalos case.

I need to send ALT-F4 (=close) to Notepad
and also need to know how to send Enter with keybd_event
in case Save file? will pop up.

Also do you know a web-page where all possible values for keybd_event would be?

Thank you in advance.

regards
keymuu

**Kyle123** · 11-23-2012, 07:33 AM

A better solution would be to look at why you are using send keys at all.

You can write to a text document from Excel without using notepad

**keymuu** · 11-23-2012, 08:14 AM

Kyle123!

I'm not using SendKeys, I'm using keybd_event and I have a couple of questions about that.
I try to close Notepad from Excel, or actually from VBA and would need to know how to press ALT
and what is the ASCII value for F4

regards
keymuu