As a research administrator at NC State University, I have been using the Macro Scheduler for two years to automatize cumbersome administrative tasks like recurrent access to financial data bases. One of my most successful contribution for other administrators has been to automatize their desktops b...

This is a follow-up on my previous posting on how to start a MS macro from VBA. Now I need to stop a MS macro from VBA. I know how to stop a macro from the keyboard by typing {shift} {escape} but when I try to do this from VBA it is not working. Here is the VBA sequence I'm using: Sub testexitMS() A...

I had tried the shell command but directly with my sript which was rejected because it's not an exe. I was not aware of this syntax which makes lots of sense now! Very helpful, thanks!
JP

I have been working a while on this issue going nowhere. Any help would be appreciated. In a nutshell I want to execute a MS macro from a VBA procedure which is part of an Excel sheet. It boils down to: How to execute VBSript from VBA? The excellent MS manual shows how to execute VBA from MS macros ...

Thank you for those who spent some time answering my questions. I will proceed from there based on your suggestions.
Jean-Pierre Bernoux

I am a happy user of Macro Scheduler who wants to go one step further in automatization. I am using a number of programs that are all now controlled by macro scheduler shortcuts. I have also programmed Macro Scheduler to provide a user interface for interaction between MS programs and the user. The ...

At Windows XP Start-Up I get the security warning "msched.exe: unknown publisher" which means probably that this software has not been certified by Microsoft. I have no problem with that but I would like this message not to appear. Is there a way under Windows XP to avoid the message without jeopard...

I just bought a 5 User License. I installed my copy and doing so I did not notice any detail that would acknowledge one authorized copy among 5. The installation was like for a single copy. How do I proceed to install the other 4 copies on different computers?