Windows keyboards don't generally have an option key so that might explain why you can't find out if it has been pressed.

You might like to look at some resources where VBA is used to investigate key states
eg
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/keytest.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.60).aspx

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