Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I expect many of you are still enjoying some holiday time. Well if you are here’s some Macro Scheduler fun from forum regular JRL. Yes, it’s a two player 1970s computer game written entirely with Macro Scheduler code. Here’s the code See JRL’s forum post and grab the […]
Thanks to Alberto Voli for this little tip. The code below can be used to print an Excel file without having to manipulate the printer dialogs. It uses VBScript to interface with Excels’ COM object model to call it’s PrintOut method. Place the VBSTART .. VBEND lines near the top of your script ready for […]
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We’re finding screencasts more and more effective in a technical support and training role. But it occurs to me that not everyone has audio. At one of our large clients most PCs – even those in the IT department – don’t have audio capabilities. I guess this could be common among the larger corporations. If […]
Microsoft advertising their advertising network using Google’s advertising network. Is this a typo from Microsoft or are Google having a chuckle. Either way Google are making money out these useless clicks 🙂
I rather like this. I thought you might too: And it gives me an idea. This struck me as being rather like a hardware equivalent to the old “Hello World” type program most people start out with. I remember learning BBC Basic with something like this: 10 Print “Hello” 20 Goto 10 Does anyone have […]
I’m often asked how to make a macro behave differently based on certain criteria. The power and flexibility of Macro Scheduler makes this an easy task. There are hundreds of different reasons you might want to do this. Maybe it’s dependent on : The answer to a question. The success/failure of an operation. The contents […]
This has come up a few times lately so I thought I’d post it here. One or two people have been asking about writing a Macro Scheduler script that performs a Google search and pulls back the resulting URLs. They have discovered that trying to automate Google can be awkward because of the dynamic nature […]
Macro Scheduler on Skis? No, not exactly. But your favourite automation software and macro recorder will apparently be helping behind the scenes at the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi. I received this message from Stefano Frattini, DT Manager at Olympic Broadcasting Services SL, yesterday: You’ll be happy to know that a small Macro Scheduler […]