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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I already have all of this rudimentary knowledge about key states. If you read my thread carefully you would know that I'm a Mac user and I specifically stated that the MS Word dialog box DOES indeed detect the Option key on the Mac keyboard. I was wondering if perhaps an MS insider would have the code for the Customize Keyboard key detection code...