MarathonZephead

Thanks Cory. I've only ever used the wizards before and although I've tried to follow your suggestion, it's not simple enough for my basic understanding. I've attached the 2 macros I need joining together - the first one is 'Activate...' I then need Macro Express to key ALT+C (which is the app's internal shortcut) (4x speed) and then run the 'Enclose...' macro.ActivateWinCatalogWindowFromTaskbar.mex Thanks again! EnclosingSpecifiedTextInQuotes.mex

Hi I apologise for being unable to locate what must be a basic question! I need to create "Macro 3" that is the product of Macro 2 added onto the end of Macro 1 i.e. when 1 has finished, 2 runs and I want to call that Macro 3. How can I do this please? Thank you!

Thanks again acantor, that's interesting to note!

Many thanks guys. @acantor - I have just modified your suggestion as below, with a CTRL+\ hotkey, which is what I need: ""<ARROW LEFT> Sorted! Best regards Paul

Sure, thanks for assisting terrypin. Yes, it is simply 1. Ignore 2. and 3. as neither are required. All I need is to be able to automatically enclose any text string with quotation marks so I can return more targeted search results in another app. "this is what I mean" "note that it's double commas, not singles" "many thanks!" P.S. I've just thought - I would be expecting the first (") (ignore parentheses) to be inserted immediately, but as I will still be typing the text, the second (") needs to be inserted after I have finished typing the text string. Typically the search will be in the format dd.mm.yyyy (e.g. "02.01.1973") but it could also be text that takes me 5-10 secs to type. If possible, I wouldn't want the second (") to be time-related (e.g. not 'continue macro after 5/10/15 seconds') as I don't know how long it's likely to take me to type and I don't want to either be twiddling my thumbs waiting for the other half of the macro to execute or being rushed to enter the data in time!

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply acantor. Just to clarify, will your suggestion result in the below, which is what I need: Before: This is a test and that's all there is to it! After: "This is a test and that's all there is to it!" Now I must apologise as I should have said that I'm a noob with custom macros. In other words, I don't know how or where I should insert your code :-( Could you help me please? Thank you!

Hi - I regularly do search strings and I need to insert " and " immediately before and after the characters (ignore 'and' and the space before and after that word). Could somebody please tell me how this can be done? Thank you!