amonaghan

No worries.🙂

My copy is showing the following as the latest version as is the Insight website.

Strange Terry. I'm in the UK and I'm on the same version as Cory albeit, I'm on Home rather than Pro Win10. I usually do a forced check for updates each night before closing down.

Try adding a Keystroke Speed at the beginning of the macro. I usually use 50ms and then lower the time until it fails.

Can you not just put the Username and Password in here? This is from the File menu.

Alan

I think Terry means you need only copy from the following line: - 

<COMMENT Value="Open the Start/Search box"/>

Alan

Thanks for that Acantor. My feeling is that I probably don't need voice interaction often enough to justify buying additional software. However, if that changes, I will look into Dragon again. I appreciate your time and reply.

Alan

Thanks Cory. I've actually decided to switch Cortana off. It was intermittently popping up even when I had my microphone physically turned off. I agree, it kept wanting to open Edge if it didn't understand my commands. More trouble than it's worth. I'll stick to typing apart from if I want to dictate a longish document.

Alan

Thanks Cory, I'll keep looking as I don't have Dragon. I know there is some info on getting Dragon working with MEP, but I was hoping I could use what's built in to Win10 if possible. I was trying to close Office apps with Cortana and discovered that it can't be done. Incredibly, MS allows you to OPEN apps with voice commands, but not CLOSE them. Utterly bizarre!

Alan

Has anybody managed to get MEP to interact with Cortana on Win10? I can't work out how to send simple keystrokes using voice commands, so was hoping someone may have found a solution or have some suggestions to try.

Alan

Thanks Terry, I'll try making time over the weekend to have another look at it.

Do you have a link to Cory's old post?

On 8/18/2019 at 2:39 PM, GregChi said:

Very happy!

This situation has been resolved via ME v6.1.1.4 .

All is well.

Thanks to all concerned

Greg (not very newbe)

I'm not seeing that version on the Insight website yet!

Alan

Are you sure you don't mean Alt-Enter?

Hi Terry. As I'm in the UK too, I'm surprise you don't have 1903 yet as I got upgraded on 3rd July. I think you need to manually invoke 'Check for updates' in order to update it. I haven't noticed any obvious issues so far since updating*.

* Don't blame if if you do 🙂

Alan

This should work a lot smoother.

<VARIABLE SET INTEGER Option="\x00" Destination="%Count%" Value="1"/>
<TEXT BOX DISPLAY Title="Progress" Content="{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\deflang1033{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fnil\\fcharset0 Tahoma;}{\\f1\\fnil Tahoma;}}\r\n\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\f0\\fs20 %Count%\\f1 \r\n\\par }\r\n" Left="Center" Top="Center" Width="278" Height="200" Monitor="0" OnTop="TRUE" Keep_Focus="TRUE" Mode="\x02" Delay="1"/>
<REPEAT START Start="1" Step="1" Count="10" Save="FALSE"/>
<DELAY Flags="\x02" Time="1000"/>
<VARIABLE MODIFY INTEGER Option="\x07" Destination="%Count%"/>
<TEXT BOX UPDATE Header="Progress" Content="{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\deflang1033{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fnil Tahoma;}}\r\n\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\f0\\fs20 %Count%\r\n\\par }\r\n"/>
<END REPEAT/>

acantor,

This is what I have always done since version 3.

This should work, although it is a bit slow. If anyone knows of a quicker way, please let me know?

Shamelessly stolen from here :- https://www.macros.com/faq/1.79.html

Repeat Until %cClipboardString% Equals ""
  Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ARROW DOWN>
  Clipboard Copy
  Variable Set String %cClipboardString% from the clipboard contents
  Variable Modify String %cClipboardString%: Trim
End Repeat

<VARIABLE SET STRING Option="\x00" Destination="%cClipboardString%" NoEmbeddedVars="FALSE" _ENABLED="FALSE"/>
<REPEAT UNTIL Variable="%cClipboardString%" Condition="\x00"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ARROW DOWN>"/>
<CLIPBOARD COPY/>
<VARIABLE SET STRING Option="\x02" Destination="%cClipboardString%" NoEmbeddedVars="FALSE"/>
<VARIABLE MODIFY STRING Option="\x00" Destination="%cClipboardString%"/>
<END REPEAT/>

Alan

Terry,

I didn't get any email either. I'm in low paid temporary work at the moment, so can't justify the full price for what appears on the whole to be cosmetic changes. I may have made the switch at the (not seen here) discounted price, especially as a long term user.

Alan

<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<RIGHTWIN>"/>

The above works for me, if it's of any help.

<RIGHTWIN> is in Misc Keys in the Text Type command.

Oddly, when I try <Control>g from a Popup Menu, it doesn't work. That is, a menu item which simply has the command -

Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <CONTROL>g

I'll give it a further look when I get home from work. I did try a simple shut down macro I use very rarely which definitely used to work in Win10, but failed last night.

I'll try again creating it from scratch to see if that makes a difference.

I can't get Scheduled macros to run either Terry. I've tried all the compatibility options and also tried in safe mode, but they won't fire in Windows 10 Home. I'm almost sure that they did before, so don't know if it's connected to recent Windows Update or not.

Windows 10 Home Version 1709 Build 16299.371

That's what I'm working towards, possibly doing it all from within Excel. I'm going to use MEP to tie all bits together in the meantime until I suss more out.

You've given me a really good start though, so thanks again Cory.

Having to leave it until the weekend as I am currently job hunting and have an appointment tomorrow to prepare for. (Not an interview yet).

That's excellent Cory. I can work with this now.

I looked at that GET too, but didn't expand it enough to see the pricing information.

A lot of work still for me to do, but I think I can manage it from here. I've even got some sort of working data in Excel now.

Definitely bedtime now. 

Thanks again,

Alan