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    Has anyone used ME as a front end for a phone dialer? What phone dialing program did you use? Thanks, Richard
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    I found the answer in another forum. Works with Internet Explorer. Cool. Richard put this in a notepad file and save it in the same directory as your html page as "openexe.js" function ShellExJ(filename) { var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application"); objShell.ShellExecute(filename, "", "", "open", 1); } put this in the <head> tag in the html doc <script language="jscript" src="openexe.js"></script> finally, put this code where ever you want the links (this example would open frontpage xp) <a target="_self" href="java script:ShellExJ('c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office10\\frontpg.exe')">Frontpage</a>
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    Thanks to all. I appreciate all the comments, which essentially reminded me of the discipline of programming. I am generally an extremely disciplined guy -- I built all four of my current computers. As for the voice interface, I would have also expected the need for "a high quality microphone in a quiet environment on a very powerful computer." However, you all need to see Microsoft Voice Command at work. While driving my noisy truck with the radio on I can say a proper name to my Pocket PC and 95 times out of 100 it will pull up the correct record for the person I want to contact. That's with no training of the computer. The microphone is crap, the environment is the opposite of quiet and the computer decidedly unpowerful. The fact that my high-end computer can't even come close to that is disappointing, but probably no more disappointing than the fact that it can't do the same thing as a TIVO I bought three years ago. I'm not trying to complain. Just wondered if I was missing something out there. Thanks again, Cheers Richard
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    Joe: Good idea. Does anyone know how to use a hyperlink to execute an .exe file?
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    Jim, Thanks for the idea. You have spawned another question which I have posted in a more appropriately titled thread. My daughter doesn't have her own account quite yet, but my day is coming soon. Cheers, Richard
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    Here is the challenge: I have an HTML file on my computer's hard drive and I'm looking at it with Internet Explorer. I want to click on a hyperlink, and instead of having it take me to somewhere on the web, I want it to activate a macro, preferably without leaving the page I'm looking at. Any way to do this? Thanks, Richard
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    First, I much prefer this forum format. Second, I've been a Macro Express user for quite a while, but I don't use if as much as I thought I would. Part of the problem is difficulty of programming macros. Even though I have written programs since they were on punch cards, I have lost my patience for debugging. A couple of macros I wrote worked okay for a while, but now that I have 3 monitors on my computer, the macros started to hiccup and it just hasn't been worth it to try to fix them. I also have limited patience for remembering shortcut keys. I would really love to have a voice interface to my macros. I use Microsoft Voice Command on my IPAQ and it's amazing how well it works. Why can't my far more powerful desktop computer do the same things? The question is, does anyone else have similar thoughts, and how do you use macros? Thanks, Richard
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