Microsoft Windows Script Host 2.0	Language Reference <../html-vss/wshTOC.htm>	

SendKeys Method
Sends one or more keystrokes to the active window as if typed at the keyboard. 
SendKeys string 
Arguments
string
Required. String expression specifying the keystrokes to send.
Remarks
Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter A, use "A" for string. To represent more than one character, append each additional character to the one preceding it. To represent the letters A, B, and C, use "ABC" for string.
The plus sign (+), caret (^), percent sign (%), tilde (~), and parentheses ( ) have special meanings to SendKeys. To specify one of these characters, enclose it within braces ({}). For example, to specify the plus sign, use {+}. Brackets ([ ]) have no special meaning to SendKeys, but you must enclose them in braces. In other applications, brackets do have a special meaning that may be significant when dynamic data exchange (DDE) occurs. To specify brace characters, use {{} and {}}.
To specify characters that aren't displayed when you press a key, such as ENTER or TAB, and keys that represent actions rather than characters, use the codes shown below:
Key	Code	
BACKSPACE	{BACKSPACE}, {BS}, or {BKSP}	
BREAK	{BREAK}	
CAPS LOCK	{CAPSLOCK}	
DEL or DELETE	{DELETE} or {DEL}	
DOWN ARROW	{DOWN}	
END	{END}	
ENTER	{ENTER}or ~	
ESC	{ESC}	
HELP	{HELP}	
HOME	{HOME}	
INS or INSERT	{INSERT} or {INS}	
LEFT ARROW	{LEFT}	
NUM LOCK	{NUMLOCK}	
PAGE DOWN	{PGDN}	
PAGE UP	{PGUP}	
PRINT SCREEN	{PRTSC}	
RIGHT ARROW	{RIGHT}	
SCROLL LOCK	{SCROLLLOCK}	
TAB	{TAB}	
UP ARROW	{UP}	
F1	{F1}	
F2	{F2}	
F3	{F3}	
F4	{F4}	
F5	{F5}	
F6	{F6}	
F7	{F7}	
F8	{F8}	
F9	{F9}	
F10	{F10}	
F11	{F11}	
F12	{F12}	
F13	{F13}	
F14	{F14}	
F15	{F15}	
F16	{F16}	
To specify keys combined with any combination of the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys, precede the key code with one or more of the following codes:
Key	Code	
SHIFT	+	
CTRL	^	
ALT	%	
To specify that any combination of SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT should be held down while several other keys are pressed, enclose the code for those keys in parentheses. For example, to specify to hold down SHIFT while E and C are pressed, use "+(EC)". To specify to hold down SHIFT while E is pressed, followed by C without SHIFT, use "+EC".
To specify repeating keys, use the form {key number}. You must put a space between key and number. For example, {LEFT 42} means press the LEFT ARROW key 42 times; {h 10} means press H 10 times.
Note You can't use SendKeys to send keystrokes to an application that is not designed to run in Microsoft Windows. Sendkeys also can't send the PRINT SCREEN key {PRTSC} to any application. 
Example
The following example demonstrates the use of a single .wsf file for two jobs in different script languages (VBScript and JScript). The functionality of both jobs is the same — each runs the Windows calculator and send keystrokes to execute a simple calculation: 
<package>

<job id="vbs">
<script language="VBScript">
   set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
   WshShell.Run "calc"
   WScript.Sleep 100
   WshShell.AppActivate "Calculator"
   WScript.Sleep 100
   WshShell.SendKeys "1{+}"
   WScript.Sleep 500
   WshShell.SendKeys "2"
   WScript.Sleep 500
   WshShell.SendKeys "~"
   WScript.Sleep 500
   WshShell.SendKeys "*3"
   WScript.Sleep 500
   WshShell.SendKeys "~"
   WScript.Sleep 2500
</script>
</job>

<job id="js">
<script language="Javascript">
   var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
   WshShell.Run("calc");
   WScript.Sleep(100);
   WshShell.AppActivate("Calculator");
   WScript.Sleep(100);
   WshShell.SendKeys("1{+}");
   WScript.Sleep(500);
   WshShell.SendKeys("2");
   WScript.Sleep(500);
   WshShell.SendKeys("~");
   WScript.Sleep(500);
   WshShell.SendKeys("*3");
   WScript.Sleep(500);
   WshShell.SendKeys("~");
   WScript.Sleep(2500);
</script>
</job>

</package>
For more information, see Running Your Scripts <wsrunningyourscripts.htm>. 
See Also
Applies To: WshShell Object <wsobjwshshell.htm>

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