SubApplication.SendKeys command is opening the Start Menu

[borgem]

The macro is as follows:

Sub FindText()

CommandBars("Edit").Controls("Find...").Execute
Application.SendKeys "%(h)W%(t)%(h)W%(n){DEL}{ESC}"


End Sub

It only seems to open the Start Menu when I use an assigned hotkey to call the macro. I had originally set it as ctrl+shift+f ("ctrl+F") and have tried changing it to other hotkeys with the same result. It is currently ctrl+t and I produce the same result. I have just recently received a new computer at work that has Windows 7/Office 7 where I was running XP/Office 2003 previously with the same macro without a hitch.

 

[borgem]

To elaborate, the string after the send keys changes the "find" options to look at the entire workbook and clears any previous query values.

 

[borgem]

Solved! Because Ctrl+Esc calls the start menu and I was holding ctrl in order to call the macro via hotkey, I just used {TAB}+{TAB} to replace the {ESC}