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Brian204845 - 27 Apr 2007 16:02 GMT

Used to be a time when it was easy to record a macro to use in any program
(or am I wrong?) I'd simply like to record my signature block and set it up
as a somple Alt S or Alt F1 or something like that to use in any program I am
in. Is that possible in XP? I have seen that I can record a macro for use
in Power Point or Excel. Is it possible to set one up for use in any
program? If so how?

Brian

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SingaporeWebDesign - 27 Apr 2007 16:10 GMT

Hello,
You may want to use a free macro recorder.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

Be sure that you include processing times when recording a macro, since it
performs independent of the program.

For example, if you open a document that will take 5 seconds - you will need
to 'record' this 5 seconds when you do the macro as Autohotkey does not know
that the document is still opening and may proceed with the next command
while the application is still opening a document.

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> Used to be a time when it was easy to record a macro to use in any program
> (or am I wrong?) I'd simply like to record my signature block and set it
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>
> Brian

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Stan Brown - 28 Apr 2007 03:32 GMT

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:10:08 +0800 from SingaporeWebDesign
<SingaporeWebDesign_ng2@bootstrike.com>:

> Hello,
> You may want to use a free macro recorder.
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> that the document is still opening and may proceed with the next command
> while the application is still opening a document.

I second the recommendation to use Autohotkey.

However, I don't think a fixed time delay is the best approach.
Conditions vary, and in my opinion it is far better to tie actions
explicitly to the opening of a window with WinWait or WinWaitActive.

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Poprivet - 27 Apr 2007 17:20 GMT

> Used to be a time when it was easy to record a macro to use in any
> program (or am I wrong?) I'd simply like to record my signature
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>
> Brian

If you're up to a small amount of "programming", or more accurately, setup
there is a program called RemoteKeys that I use and it's absolutely great in
its feature set! Only downside is, it's no longer supported and not all of
the Help has been translated to English, but most has. If it has any bugs, I
never found them. It was developed for use in a museum and the author just
decided to put it into the public domain.
http://www.freewarehits.de/

HTH
Pop`

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