SendKeys to another Form

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I'd like to put a button on Form2 that sends a key combination to the Browser Object on Form2. Ideally, I'd prefer to have it not visually jump to the other form, but if the focus has to be switched that's not that big of a problem.

('BrowserWindow' is a Microsoft Web Browser Object)

I tried the basics first, but this gave me an 'Object doesn't supposrt this property or method' error.

Code:
Private Sub Form2_PlayPause_Click()
  Forms!Form1.BrowserWindow.SendKeys ("^p")
End Sub

So I tried the following instead...

Code:
Private Sub Form2_PlayPause_Click()
  Forms!Form1.BrowserWindow.SetFocus
  Pause 1
  SendKeys ("^p")
End Sub

The silly web app we use uses CTRL-P for 'Play/Pause', but this second attempt ends up just bringing up the Print prompt like almost every other application in the world would do when you hit CTRL-P. I THINK this is just basically telling me that it's not actually setting the focus to the Browser window properly.

Any suggestions?
 

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