Re: Automating repetitive task?

[Scott Russell <s_w_russell -at- yahoo -dot- ca>]

Nancy:
 
Yes, Visual BASIC for Applications procedures, which
the macro recorder creates, can access other
Microsoft applications and work with their objects,
such as Word creating an e-mail; populating the To,
CC, BCC, Subject, and Body sections; and attaching a
document. However, you would have to write these
procedures yourself after creating the appropriate
references to the applications.

The macro recorder only works within individual
applications, rather than across applications. Its
audience seems to be those users who work with Word
enough to want to automate repetitive procedures,
but who don't work with Word deeply enough to want to
write their own procedures.
 
Hope this helps,
 
 
Scott Russell
 
 
 
> --- Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> 
> > I remember the Word macro function and it's
> probably
> > still there, but does it work across separate
> > applications like Microsoft Script Editor or
> > Notepad?
> > 
> > --N.
> > 
> > >From: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
> > >Date: 2007/08/13 Mon PM 01:02:25 CDT
> > >To: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
> > >Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > >Subject: Re: Automating repetitive task?
> > 
> > >> Can someone point me in the direction of the
> > skills I need to be able to automate something as
> > stupidly repetitious as this?
> > >
> > >Word's VB capabilities are engineered for this
> > exact task. The online
> > >Help should walk you through it well. I'm no
> longer
> > a "Word maven" but
> > >I remember there also being a "record macro"
> > capability that allowed
> > >you to record yourself going through one sequence
> > and being able to
> > >reuse it as a push-button macro.
> > >
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