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This is still our macro we are trying to run continuously: We want to make sure any open windows are closed before launching the first macro in our series. We're not sure how to do this because it could include several possibilities of windows that would be open. And we are not sure what the titles of the windows would be. Anyway, is there just a shut down any window that is open? - Thanks - Renee

We got it figured out why it would only run 8 times. The Norton utilities was looking for new updates. We figured it was something like this but could never "capture" the dialogue box that would open messing up our macro. Thanks for the help anyway.

Does this make sense??? After the macro runs about 10 times, the mouse moves enough so that it won't do a mouse move? I have the macro written to move to a save button (there is NO pull down menu, etc.). If the mouse is moved, even though I have it saved to wait until it turns in an arrow, and it is an hour glass and not an arrow, it will not move to the save button if some how it has been moved. We are thinking of taping the mouse down on the desk. But this is crazy. We did get it to run for 10 times, then it clicked on a backup file and tried to open it. Should I write in to keep the mouse moving in small increments or something? - anything? Can ya tell we're frustrated!!!!

We have the macro on a stripped down machine. It only has ME on it and Launchpad which runs on the half-hour and the macro is scheduled to run on the hour. Maybe we should use other? And have it run every 60 minutes? - Thanks - Renee

We have a macro we want to run hourly. It will run perfectly 7 or 8 times then stalls. We will see that it has excuted but somehow after 7 or 8 times it will "miss" its mark in saving the file we are generating. We've been running it now for about 2 weeks and it always seems it runs perfectly for 7 or 8 hours. I'm repeating myself... something we wish the macro would do!! Anyone else experience this bizzare behavior? Any ideas??

Thanks Jason. What I'm actually doing is "hitting" things inside a form. I use the tab key and enter key as much as possible. Unfortunatly much of the information I need to hit in these forms can't be used other than a mouse click. I've tried things like this: <GETCONTROL2:01:CWS.EXE:ThunderRT6FormDCAvatar CWS (ASH)000:><IFCONTROL:01:01><WAITCONTROL:000000:000000:01:04><ENDIF> Using the Thunder option where I capture a window... Not sure really what I'm doing with it . That is one way I try to slow down the process so that the macro will run and not get ahead of itself. Another problem I have is I use the wait for ... for instance the left pointed arrow. Some of my reports take a long to run. And as long as the hour glass is showing it runs fine, but if my user hits the mouse and it bounces up and becomes the left pointed arrow then it tries to execute the document before it is ready. I have some code written that basically is written to wait for the mouse to be a steady arrow for 2 seconds, but if it is moved up the screen then it is steady. Ok, that is one problem I have. The 2nd error we've been getting is a run-time error. Again its in this propietary program. If you run it by clicking thru the steps yourself it works. Again it's using a drop down window and I have it automated to ALT E to open the drop down and then using the hidden access keys... do I maybe need to put more time in it at the beginning or have it run slower? These are just some of the issues I'm dealing with... on top of my Doctor's saying "Renee, you fix it!" Ok, I know I don't always make myself clear, but I hope this helps. - Thanks in advance. - Renee P.S. I'll check out those shared macros for sure!!

Can any of you direct me to sample files, books (btw, I've put a request to order the book mentioned on the ME website [Kevin wrote it, I think?]) or anything to help me automate my files better. I rely too much on "mouse moves" and then when one (and I mean ONE) of my doctor moves computers she is getting crashes. Now she may not be , kinda of, sort of, telling the truth! She will complain about a macro, I will go and run it on her computer and it works perfectly. But there is no way she will sit down with me and show me what she is doing. She just wants me to fix it. Now she is telling me some macros she used this weekend CRASHED the program she was running the macros in. It is a proprietary program called Clinician Workstation. Granted, I have found that when I do a mouse move, it can be off by a tad because she has done something to her icons, background, etc. I've not yet played w/making the "display" the same as mine. Maybe I should try that? I've tried to automate them as much as possible but I know I could automate more. I hope I've given enough information for you to see what I'm wanting to do and lead me into the right place to learn automation better. - Renee

Thanks Brad! Yes I hope it will help someone else as this is no longer an issue! We hired someone who created an Access file to access these reports. It fixes all that "stuff" - Renee

Joe, sorry... I always go from point A to point C... Ok, let me try again. I have a program on my computer that uses a unique system code. then the Login name and password is the same. Every 90 days I have to change the password for each of the 10 differnt System code. I was trying to automate that by hitting the key of the unique System code. The System Codes are: BSH SAH RSH TSH WCY NTH, etc. The user id are all the same as is the password. So I wrote a macro to say wait for text... then I would type the B for it fill in BSH. then I wanted it to go to the next log-in, which means you have to open the program again. But here is what I did, I just set it up to do the user id and Password after a "wait for Tab key". So I can just enter my own System Code, and then tab and then fills in my user id and password... and I only have to change the password one time in the code... However, doing it this way I still have to change each password But I think I just figured out to automate that too, so never mind . However, I wanted to finish this thread, but you might enlighten us to some cool script anyway - Thanks ~ Renee

I have a program that I log into, however it has 8 different logins. I want to tell ME to wait for text... then proceed with log-in. However, if I don't hit the first wait for text then it won't go to the next line which is a different wait for text. So I know I need to write something like if not B then go to next wait for text... or something like that. See why I need help. Does this make sense? - Renee

Well, Paul you are right, except what I do now is scroll down until I find the text and then type =whatever row its on aj. So I was trying to figure out how to get the macro to recognize the row. But I just had an idea. I might be able to search and then replace it with an If statement. I'll try that - thanks - Renee

I have a list I create and it lists doctor's name, except if a patient has already been discharged. then it says "automatic discharge". What I want to do is delete automatic discharge and replace it with the information in the same row in column aj. right now I type in =row#aj and it replaces the text. then I have to copy and paste as just plain text because i then delete all the columns from about Z to AJ. for those of you who know Excel you will understand. If not, don't worry about it. So my question is this: Can I make ME recognize the row? It changes everytime I download the document. I don't want to have to create a new row and write an IF statement if I don't have too - Any help would be appreciated. Renee

I finally got it work, I think ... after I click on the drop down list, I then hit ctrl + home and then start from there. Thanks for all the good suggestions - Renee

I have a Macro that goes to a drop down list. The item I want is Pharmacy Controlled. I have the macro written to type P (hits Pharmacy Non-Controlled) and then arrow down. I did have it hit P, P but it would go back to Pharmacy Non-Controlled more often then not). Well suddenly it's going to X-ray. So I rewrote the macro to go home first at the very top of the drop down list. then type in P, then arrow down. Is there a easier way for me to get the macro to hit the correct drop down item more consistently? My dr. that uses this all the time, has it happen to her often. I finally got it to do it to me (selecting X-Ray rather than Pharmacy Controlled), and it was like the cursor for the dropdown was in the middle of the drop down lists when it got to that point in the macro, thus the reason for me adding "Go home" in the macro. I have a 2 second delay between all the commands. Any help is more than appreciated! - Renee

Thank you so much for answering. I have sat and watched it carefully. I'm not sure I said this but it looks like it pulls the menu down, because I see a flash, then it pauses and the mouse begins to move like it has opened a report. Here is the code, maybe this will hope. Also, where would I put the code you so kindly gave me? That is if it's not obvious what I'm doing wrong. Thanks again for your help! Here is where I think it's getting hung-up: Delay 2 Seconds Text Type: <ENTER> // Selects Last Episode Wait For Window Title: "Episode" Delay 1 Seconds Text Type: <ENTER> Delay 5 Seconds Wait Window Lose Focus: "Processing" Delay 1 Seconds If Window Title "ERROR" is on top Variable Set Integer %N1% to 0 Text Type: <ENTER> Delay 2 Seconds Else Variable Set Integer %N1% to 1 Else // If client has no information If Variable %N1% = 1 Macro Run: Printing Macro - Choose All End If End If It was working perfect for like a year! I did create the Printing Macro - Choose All a while back, 2 months? 3 months? I did this because it wasn't hitting my options button and rather than change it numerous places I made it a separate macro (I have choose all, choose last, choose your choice, etc.)

I've created a macro that is 266 lines long. The macro is exactly the same except that it chooses different items from a drop down menu. Basically it opens a reports menu, goes to the particular report and prints it. If it is not available it the program throws up a dialogue box that says "report not available". I have a macro that is an if statement that makes it proceed to the next report if it gets this message. It will run fine 26 times then stalls... or acts like it has found a report and then makes the mouse moves to print it. This happens after a document is not found. There are reports not found all thru the macro. It only happens when it gets to the end. I took where it was stalling and created a new macro with just those lines of script. Again, it starts running fine. Continues thru a "not found report" and goes correctly then suddenly it stalls again. If I write a macro exactly the same and run that macro over and over again, how can this be happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Its making me nuts! - Renee

I guess I didn't make myself clear ... my macro is exactly what I want. I just want to be able to repeat it until all the text strings are found. Sometimes I may have only 3 of the lines I need to tweak, sometimes it's 10. So I want to repeat the macro until it can't find that text string anymore. For instance under Repeat there is a "repeat until..." command. Well I want my macro to repeat until it can't find the text I'm looking for. But I'm not sure how to write that. Make sense? ~ Renee

I have a macro that looks for text in a document. Right now after it has found the particular text, I just execute the macro again on the keyboard to find the next text string which is always the same text. How would I use (or can I use) the repeat command until the text box (this is in Excel 2003) comes up that says Microsoft Excel cannot find the data you're searching for. (the title of this text box is: Microsoft Excel). I just don't understand the T1, N2 etc. So could someone just write it for me to copy and paste in my macro if it's not too lengthy or send me someplace where I can try and do it? THANK YOU SO MUCH. Renee

We have recently installed Dragon Speak Preferred on some computers. For $600 more you can get the professional which has macros. Has anyone used this program? Do we need to spend that much extra for their built in macros? thanks for any info - Renee another totally off the topic question: are their classes for ME? My company probably wouldn't send me anyway. Just curious

I've attached a file showing the error message we are getting. People who previously had the MeProc.exe file no longer have it. Can I copy it and put it in their C:\program files\macro express 3 folder? Some people's files never messed up, I was able to double click on the aforementioned file when I was getting those error messages and it worked! AGGG thanks for your patience - Renee PESKY_ERRO_MESSAGES.doc

Kevin, yes you had ALL the error messages correct (I had fixed it somehow on my computer and couldnt' recreate the errors). But when you said: From your description I suspect that the preferences were not ported to the new server. If that is the case, then each user could find the macro file by browsing to the correct location when Macro Express comes up. I'm unsure how to browse in this instance. Can you be more specific Thanks a ton- Renee

we just changed servers on Monday and everyone is having trouble with the MacroExpress. The error message keeps popping up that says "Can't find Macro Express" and is looking for it C:\my documents." The MacroExpress3 is in C:\Program Files\MacroExpress3. When I clicked on MacExp it began to work fine for me, but 2 other users when I told them the same thing, it just put them back in the loop of Can't Find Macro Express. You have to click out of it about 10 times... ok maybe not that many. Can anyone help me??? Thanks - Renee

Kevin, thanks... that's what I THOUGHT from the list of upgrades. And since we aren't allowed to have sound cards, I think we are safe! - Renee

We are getting "new" computers at my office, and I am wanting to have ME installed on those computers that are replacing the old ones that have ME on them now. We are making a "ghost image" to reformat the harddrives (hope that makes sense) anyway, here is my question... I've made quite a few macros using ver. 3.5b. If we upgrade to 3.5c will that mess up my existing macros? What if some users who have a "new" computer don't get the new upgraded computers have to live with 3.5b until who knows when they get around to upgrading? We've had an issue of 3.5a not working w/some of my macros. I guess the bottom line is this... the majority of my users have 3.5b. Should we make that the standard for all the comptuers (you've got to understand I work for the state and they are so slow to make installations like this because its NOT a priority FOR THEM) or should I push to have 3.5C installed and just have to wait for some people's computers to get upgraded? My boss told me what we decide to do will be it forever and ever. So stick with 3.5b or move to 3.5c? Hope that made sense - Renee A.

I keep setting one of my end users Macro to backup. I close it down to test it, it gives me this error Couldn't back up error 0X005B546A. Using macro 3.2.02. then when you open the macro again and go to options/preference the backup is back to Never! The macro is saved in her personal folder - Renee