{"id":930,"date":"2009-12-02T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/?page_id=930"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:51:47","slug":"what-is-a-macro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/automation-for-beginners\/what-is-a-macro\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Macro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A macro is a set of instructions designed to carry out a task on your PC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/windows-macro.htm\">Windows Macros<\/a> may be recorded just like a movie, or created by using wizards or writing a script containing the instructions or commands.<\/p>\n<p>Commands exist to simulate everything you can do with the keyboard and mouse; switch from one window to another; close windows; start programs; execute files; change directory; count, copy, move and delete files; read from files; write to files; perform DDE commands in other applications; detect running applications and open windows; make decisions based on the state of the cursor, the presence of windows and files, or the age of files; make arithmetic calculations; transfer files by FTP; prompt for information; gather system information; manipulate strings, times and dates; find windows containing specific text &#8230;&#8230;. and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A macro is a set of instructions designed to carry out a task on your PC. Windows Macros may be recorded just like a movie, or created by using wizards or writing a script containing the instructions or commands. Commands exist to simulate everything you can do with the keyboard and mouse; switch from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":947,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions\/1484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}