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Accessing the VB Immediate Window using Code

I've been trying like crazy to write a procedure that will clear Visual Basic's Immediate Window. It seems so easy, just the following steps are needed (in theory):

SendKeys "^(G)" 'Sets focus to the Immediate window.
SendKeys "^(A)" 'Selects all of the text there.
SendKeys "{DELETE} 'Deletes the selected text.

Obviously, this does not at all work in the VB environment. Is there a way to automate this task another way?

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My intention in this was to write a simple procedure/component/module that I could access at anytime within the VB environment, not just in one session. The code you provided will certainly clear the Immediate Window in one particular program, but will not be available each time I use VB. If I could make a custom button for the VB 6 toolbar, that would work, but I haven't found a way into that. Though you did answer the words I wrote, I was hoping for a more global response.

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