michaelkenward

Strange. I also used a mouse utility for a while, but somehow never got round to installing it in Vista. Could that be messing around with Macro Express? Can you turn it off and see what happens?

It seems to depend on whether you have clicked in the appropriate area. A lot of software fails to sense the position of the cursor before deciding what to do with the scroll wheel. I do, though, have one complicating wrinkle in that I have a dual-monitor set up. This is now pretty common, but a lot of software struggles to handle that too. It looks as if MacroExpress is multi-monitor enabled. I just have to work out how to use it.

OK. Thanks for the confirmation. Unless someone can explain how to use the keyboard, it will be down to the "trackball". (I prefer that to a mouse, takes less desk space.) But it does seem to be a broken bits of the Macro Express interface- tagging that allows you to add one or more customizable "tags" to an item that can then be searched or action taken upon. once an item has been "tagged", the tag or tags will be kept in the x1 index. It looks like the keyboard will work. But somehow it won't.

Thanks for that. Will give it a try. I generally avoid mouse movements for macros. I'm a keyboard freak. So had not really investigated that route.

I had a small macro in version 3.0 that took an abbreviation and then went into macro edit mode to create a new macro with a hotkey expansion using the abbreviation. In ME Pro I have worked out most of the substantial changes needed, but one stumps me. In the "Create New Macro" it demands that I assign a hotkey. I don't want to do this. I want to assign a "Shortkey". The only way to move the keyboard to the "Initial Activation" slot seems to be a load of Tab keys, seven in all. And yet the options available have the underline implying that I can keyboard the move. Of course, any keyboard stuff I try just shows up in the HotKey slot. Am I missing something? Maybe I should create the macro in this way. But it worked fine before.