David,
 
 DS> Nothing but the knowledge of what can be done. Also 
 DS> want can be done hopefully with both dbase for windows 
 DS> and access.
Well, since it's the _Windows_ API and all three products allow to to tap 
into it in someway, you can do just about anything that can be accomplished 
with a single API call.  For example, I've got API tricks for automatically 
accepting dialog boxes when they appear (or automatically cancelling them), 
for tiling Windows horizontally, for calling the messageBox function, for 
playing sound files, for enumerating the entire Windows desktop, and so 
rth.
You might look for a book called "Windows Programming for Non-Programmers"
by Woody Leonhard (no relation, note the spelling difference).  While he uses 
WordBasic and VisBasic, each of the the calls that he describes can be 
expressed in anything that lets you prototype direct API calls.  In fact, 
that's the book I used to learn some of the idocyncracies of the API, though 
I rewrote his code samples in ObjectPAL.
 
Be warned, though, his writing style is somewhat, ah, irreverant.  If you 
enjoy that, it's a pretty fun book (though some of his puns are 
unforgiveable).  If you want hard news, though, you might find the writing 
style a little juvenile.  It all depends on your sense of humor.
 
Hope this helps...
 
-- Lance
--- Maximus 2.02
---------------