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Thanks for your suggestions, I will have to try them out.
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So here is my dilemma, I am trying to find out if I can have Macro Express differentiate from different colored text.
I have a macro that I am building that will become much easier if the macro is smart enough to recognize the color of text in an excel spreadsheet. Essentially if it can recognize the color of text I want it to run a certain macro, if it sees another text color it would not run it.
I think this is kind of a shot in the dark, but if it works this will save me a ton of time.
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Try Scheduled Activation - set when creating the Macro or via Properties of the macro
So I am able to do this by a scheduled activiation, however I tried setting this for a time that I will be away from my computer, is there any way to make macros run while the computer is locked??
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I have been browsing the options in Macex and I can't seem to find anything that will allow me to have a macro automatically start at a certain time.
Is there any way to do this?
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Delay worked perfectly, thanks again for the help.
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Thanks stan, I will try that out and see what happens.
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I am having trouble with a macro I have built. I want it to paste in a picture inbetween text types in 2 different spots. The problem is no matter what I have tried the pictures always end up being whatever I put into the second paste.
My setup is as follows:
Restore All Variables
Text type
Clipboard Graphic Copy - linked to pic1
Clipboard Paste
Text Type
Clipboard Graphic Copy - linked to pic2
Clipboard Paste
Text Type
Restore All Variables
All my text comes out perfectly but the pictures always come out with whatever picture I put into the second link (or whatever is the last link, I tried with 3 pics just to test it and it got all 3)
I would think that this would work no problem, but for whatever reason it is acting as if it doesn't paste any of the graphics until the macro has finished running and it will paste whatever was the last picture copied into all the paste spots. It is almost as if there is a problem with the way macro express is spitting out the information.
I have tried several variations of the setup, including using the clipboard start copy and end copy commands, as well as trying to break up the macro into 2 separate macros and have the first macro begin to run the second one right after the first picture was pasted. These worked no differently than the original setup. For example:
Macro 1:
Restore All Variables
Text type
Clipboard Graphic Copy - linked to pic1
Clipboard Paste
Text Type
Restore All Variables
Macro Run: Macro 2
Macro 2:
Restore All Variables
Text type
Clipboard Graphic Copy - linked to pic2
Clipboard Paste
Text Type
Restore All Variables
However, if I ran macro 1 and then immediately manually ran macro 2 instead of having it autorun by using macro 1 it worked just fine.
Can anyone help me??
Color variable manually defined by #?
in Macro Express 3.x
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Is there any way that I can save a Pixel Color number and store it within a macro permanently? For instance, if I always wanted text that is color 255 to be what the macro is looking for can I set that somehwere?
Basically I would want my macro to always use the same color without having to go grab it every time the macro runs, since it is represented by a number I was assuming that color value could be saved in a macro somehow.
I was looking at the options in the variables, and I read the help on variables and I couldn't see any way to define a color as a variable manually, but I may have not been looking in the right place. I found the color that I need using the get pixel command, but that makes me define the variable each time.
Is this possible, or am I trying to live out a pipe dream?