Re: Mac users - UI question

[Chris Morton <chris -at- isntthatwrite -dot- com>]

I used to use the SendKeys function in WinBatch all of the time. Alas,
WinBatch has become too pricey for me to recommend it to avg. B2B/B2C
clients.

Certain earlier versions of Windows shipped with ScriptIt, which was
essentially a pared-down WinBatch knockoff. I couldn't find it on the 'net.

But today there is the free AutoIt and AutoHotkey. I didn't investigate the
former, but have found the latter to be quite similar to WinBatch.

Stay tuned for my blog post on this topic.



Chris Morton
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> How do you do simple keystroke macros in Windows?
>
> That used to be a feature in Word and Excel, and I used it all the
> time. Then Microsoft switched to VBA, which doesn't simply record
> keystrokes but interprets them, often resulting in macros that don't
> work outside of the specific context in which they were recorded.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > My premise is that any office worker should be able to automate (i.e.,
> > create macros) simple repetitive functions without knowing one darn thing
> > about programming.
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