While I would personally recommend against doing this (changing the
environment is problematic especially if the code crashes) here is some code
to hide and unhide the task bar. Place it in a standard code module...

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" _
Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As Long, _
ByVal hWnd2 As Long, _
ByVal lpsz1 As String, _
ByVal lpsz2 As String) As Long

Sub TaskBar(blnValue As Boolean)
Dim lngHandle As Long
Dim lngStartButton As Long

lngHandle = FindWindow("Shell_TrayWnd", "")

If blnValue Then
ShowWindow lngHandle, 5
Else
ShowWindow lngHandle, 0
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Cmdhide_Click()

TaskBar (False)
End Sub

Private Sub Cmdunhide_Click()
TaskBar (True)
End Sub

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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"basketcase63" wrote:

Is there a way to permanently hide the taskbar and have it appear only with a
series of control keys?