thanks for the reply PxT. i've that in the office and it worked just fine. but there is one more problem to it. as i have just said before that these scripts are series of multiple questions... it came to a point where there are no choices to make instead i have to press ENTER to choose default where is not included in the multiple choice. how can i put a "carriage return" in the macro? to illustrate:

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menu
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1)blah
2)blah blah
3)blah blah blah

you have chosen (ENTER=default blah):

thanks for the help but i still need this very much.