Videos of the Week (Vol. 13): Using Macro Express

Learn about writing macros for Windows with Macro Express!

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welcome to our video the week on macro
Express
before we talk about macro expresso for
Windows let's talk a little bit about
macros
backers are essentially a way you
combining
a number love commands so that you can
simplify repetitive past
I instead in executing pending you can
execute one which in turn
run steps 1 through 10 there are a lot
of good examples in this particularly in
a business setting
for example if your company used I
long billing terms you mind map those to
certain factors
to ensure that you don't typo including
say a 25 digit or 30 digital 35 did
milling
certainly you could create such macros
I'll using the Macro invisibility in
Microsoft Office
what if you are working outside of
Microsoft Office great advantage to
using macro Express
is that it works within Windows no
matter what application you running
use the default macro Express window
it's meant to lie
Windows Explorer it's got a similar
paradigm between
it's like a cross between Windows
Explorer and Microsoft Outlook home
on the right hand side here we have a
list the macros
and then by default included in every
macro Express file
following up on Dan's example opening
multiple web sites using
Automator on Mac let's create a macro
that opens up multiple web sites
so I'm going to right-click in my macro
explore
area in flight new Mac Pro and
the very first thing we're prompted to
do
is choose the default activation method
it sends we have
a number of options for this we can map
in this macro to
hockey combination control AB
whatever you could also use the Windows
he
you can use control K whatever
I works for you on you should
probably not use common key combinations
use by I other windows functions like
copies control C
probably a bad idea to map your macro to
that but just for the sake of today's
demonstration I'm going to map it
to control K and I'm gonna open the
scripting editor
the so the neat thing about macro
Express is that
while you have to learn its way of
thinking about command
you don't have to know very much at all
about programming
so to launch a series a website and
click on the Internet command
group all school down here to your
website
and when I double click on it on
prompted to
website I want to open I'm not say I
like going to do burnt
Bob Carr and inserts on the right hand
side the actual script
that it's gonna open the website builder
dot com I can test if this works
by clicking on the head test run macro
button here in the toolbar
and you can see here that the website
builder dot com pops up
if you're not the type of person who
enjoys big ring out how certain
scripting
words or creating called behind your
macros you can use
kneecap surrender in the macro Explorer
view it
this camcorder looking icon I
to captured your mouse move means
and keyboard input so
what I've been here by clicking on the
capture bad news on creating a brand new
Mac Pro
on give it a shortened you control K
and click on the caption macro button
over here on the right hand side
give my macaroni and then click the
Start capture button here in the lower
left hand corner
now everything I do is going to be
capture again I can Monte Internet
Explorer
and go to Dover dot com
and then when I click
on these movie looking icon
in the system tray we excuse me when I
right click on it
I'm stopping the capture I'll my
screenplay
and now I have another macro the defense
it as well
the first when did you when we any
through the skipping editor
so he hear you we've shown you a couple
love
admittedly overly simple examples of the
usefulness if macro Express
but their plan your business uses for
the sea as well
you can at least get the taste here that
macro Express can be used to
automate more complicated functions
certainly a lot more complicated
then opening a browser window in fact
certain places
businesses use macro Express to assist
them
with cataloging books in a library for
example
I invite you to visit www dot markers
that com for more information about this
product
and also to check out there tutorial
thanks for watching our video of the
week