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  1. I am sorry.....I thought this response had gone out: When i move the pointer to the NEXT thing, the pointer becomes a hand. Also, this is visible in a window: <button class="next" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-6272="6272"> <div class="next-text"> Next </div> <span class="svg-icon-wrap"><span class="visually-hidden">Next</span><li-icon aria-hidden="true" type="chevron-right-icon" size="small"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24px" height="24px" x="0" y="0" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" class="artdeco-icon" focusable="false"><path d="M9,8L5,2.07,6.54,1l4.2,6.15a1.5,1.5,0,0,1,0,1.69L6.54,15,5,13.93Z" class="small-icon" style="fill-opacity: 1"></path></svg></li-icon></span> </button>
  2. 'all I want to do is : a. hit a hotkey & allow the macro to locate the cursor to top left of webpage; b. Press ^A to select all contents and then ^c to copy the page to clipboard; c. Then, click on the little "NEXT===>" near page bottom to go to the next webpage; I can't remember how!!!!!!!!!! Can someone tell me? Thanks, Jeff
  3. I have one macro file for all the macro's I've created for my office. 'Problem is that long ago I must have somehow copied all the PGM macros into the same macro file and now I want to remove all the PGA macro's, but IT WON'T LET ME DELETE THEM WITHOUT A PASSWORD - SOMETHING I DON'T HAVE. How can I separate the PGM macro's from the macro's that I created???? Thanks (and a big HELLO AGAIN to CORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeff Mazor
  4. Many of our workstations, including mine, use WordPerfect along with scores of entries in its QuickCorrect tool. Many of those are identical to some of the shortkeys I have in my computer in MacroExpress. Since I have both WordPerfect and MacoExpress on my machine, and the MEx scopes are set to "global", sometimes the two programs don't play well together ............; i.e., BOTH quickCorrect and the corresponding macro will type the word, and I get "Plaintiffplaintiff". Eventually, in WordPerfect, I'll change the prefix from a period to a comma, and that should do it. In the meanwhile, can you suggest a way for me to change the scope of the involved macros on my one workstation, all at once using MacroExpress? I'd like to be able to highlight all the 100+ items and right-click to change the Scope on all of them to "Global Except" WordPerfect. Is there any way to do something like that? Jeffrey Mazor 954-962-3500
  5. Thank you. None of those helped, but you gave me an idea. It seems that doing the hotkey twice works, but programming two left clicks does not.
  6. Thanks. That was a good idea.....but alas, it dooes not work either. Jeff
  7. Thank you. Your answer seemed totally logical, but wordperfect still mostly ignores it. Buttons in WP Dialog Boxes. I just discovered that the [Alt+Z] macro works fine on buttons in WP dialog boxes. Toolbar Icons in Other Programs. It works fine on Toolbar Icons in IE, Adobe Reader, TimeMatters, etc. WP Toolbar Icons. Maybe there is something odd about the WordPerfect toolbar icons? When I hit the hotkey while hovering over a toolbar icon, WP usually ignores it. Sometimes, but not always, if I hit the hotkey, pause, and hit it again, WP takes it as a left click. Mean something? Jeff
  8. Thank you both. Apparently this [Alt+Z} macro and a double-click version [Alt+Shift+Z] work fine everywhere except in WordPerfect: <MACRO PLAYBACK SPEED Speed="1"/> <MOUSE LEFT CLICK/> Can't find any conflicts. WordPerfect is not using [Alt+z] and switching to [Alt+FunctionKey] does not help either. Its strange, but when I highlight an icon in a WordPerfect toolbar and press [Alt+Z], it just makes a 'thunk' sound. Any further insight would be appreciated. Jeff
  9. I can use my right hand to position the mouse pointer over a checkbox, icon, button, control, etc. But right now, I can't use my right hand fingers to click the mouse buttons. All I want is to position the pointer with my right hand, and use my left to press [Alt+Z] to Left-Click or [Alt+X] to double-left-click. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing works. All I get is a little beep. Please, any ideas?
  10. Let me try to explain this a bit more simply. I have a folder I want to watch with a 1000 subfolders with even more files. I want to be able to quickly detect the new file, and the Repeat with Folder command takes over a half hour to run through all the files in the subfolders. Is there someway the activation can also deposit the new file and path into a variable to start with?
  11. Don't want to be a pest, but can you give me an example? I need ME to notice the new file (as long as it does not end in "-ocr.pdf"), and then do things with it. ME would watch folder F:\WP\ and its about 1000 subfolders (like F:\WP\Cases\4000\) for added image files that do NOT end in "-ocr.pdf" (like "MartinSmith.pdf"). When one is added, ME would copy that file to a corresponding folder in F:\Raw\, such as F:\Raw\Cases\4000\MartinSmith.pdf. Then ME would (i) have OmniPage ocr the "Raw" file, (ii) rename the result by adding "-ocr" before the ".pdf", and (iii) save to the original folder. Since ME will ignore files that end in "-ocr.pdf", it will ignore the new "F:\WP\Cases\4000\MartinSmith-ocr.pdf." I hope I'm being clear. I fear that the file watching will consume so much time, that it will be impractically slow. Thanks for reading this. Jeffrey R. Mazor, Esq. J. R. Mazor & Associates, P.A. Presidential Circle Building 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 265-s Hollywood, FL 33021 Phone: 954-962-3500 Fax: 954-962-3560 Email: JMazor@Mazor.com
  12. "use the activation of directory modification and then suck the new file name as a string and parse out the bits to be used in the logic of your filing. CORY: How would I do this? It would be great, cause I could then send thd file to OmniPage for OCR and renaming (addiing "-ocr" before the ".pdf" Please call if you can. Jeff 954-962-3500
  13. I"m new to V4. I use OmniPage to automatically OCR incoming email attachments files and pdf them. Due to OmniPage limitations, the resulting files have to get saved in one particular folder ("F:\New OCR's") in this format: "1234;Johnson.pdf" OR "1234567;Contract.pdf", where the 4 or 7 digits before the first semicolon are the case account number. Can ME watch that output folder and when a new file appears, copy the file to a new directory based upon the filename and save under a slightly different name. Examples: "1234;Johnson.pdf" would be saved to folder S:\1234\ as "S:\1234\1234;Johnson;OCR'd.pdf" "1234567;Contract.pdf" would be saved to folder S:\1234567\ as "S:\1234567\1234567;Contract;OCR'd.pdf" Any ideas? Thanks, Jeff Mazor
  14. Kevin - I should have thought of that. But I have been using other punctuation for different groups of shortkeys (e.g., periods for most shortkeys, semicolons for shortkeys "written" by my case management system, commas for shortkeys corresponding to the names, emails, phones, etc. of people we frequently refer to), so it may not work out. I hope that you will consider my suggestion.
  15. If someone knows how to accomplish this, that would be great. Otherwise, maybe the intrepid programmers can take this as a suggestion: I know that we can use the Case Sensitivity setting for a given macro to enable the case of the first letter in a shortkey to control the case of the first letter of the resulting text, like this: Shortkey: bnk Result: bankruptcy Shortkey: Bnk Result: Bankruptcy However, my entire shortkey library uses leading punctuation characters, so the actual shortkey is ".bnk" or ".Bnk". Obviously, that means that the first character is always a punctuation mark, and the first letter ameanable to upper and lower case is actually the second character. Also, I can't even consider changing the structure. I know that I can make the entire shortkey case sensitive, but that would create too many potential versions of the shortkeys and be more trouble than its worth. My solution has been to ignore case sensitivity and just add an "x" to the shortkeys. For example: Shortkey: bnk Result: bankruptcy Shortkey: bnkx Result: Bankruptcy I was wondering if anyone had a better idea. Otherwise, maybe the feature could enable the user to chose to use the first OR the second character of a shortkey to control the case of the text?
  16. Thanks to both of you. I'm thinking that it may just be best to go ahead and use the Dragon Command tool to program in the shortkeys I want! Jeff
  17. I've just started with Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Preferred, and I want to take advantage of the many MX3 macro's that I already have -- preferably without having to "train" DNS with new words or commands. But something is not right. Example: I have a MX3 macro that types "Clerk of the 11th Circuit Court" when I type the shortkey ".k11 " (i.e., ".k11" followed by a space). But when I speak ".k11 ", DNS types ".k11 ", but even if I physically hit the spacebar, nothing happens, i.e., MX3 does not trigger the ".k11" shortkey. I know that I can train DNS to type "Clerk of the 11th Circuit Court" when it hears me say ".k11". But I would have to do that for every one of the shortkeys that I already use in MX3. That will take forever. Is there any way to get MX3 to recognize shortkeys regardless of whether my fingers or DNS does the "typing"? Thanks for any suggestions! Jeffrey R. Mazor
  18. Hi guys. I've just started messing with Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Preferred, and "naturally" I want to try to take advantage of the many MX3 macro's that I already have -- preferably without having to "train" DNS with new words or commands. But something is not right. Example: I have a shortkey that types "Clerk of the 11th Circuit Court". It is activated by a shortkey ".k11 ". When I type ".k11" followed by a space, MX3 runs the macro and types "Clerk of the 11th Circuit". But when I say ".k11", DNS types ".k11", but even if I hit the spacebar, nothing happens, i.e., MX3 does not trigger the ".k11" shortkey. I know that I can train DNS to recognize each one of my shortkeys, essentially duplicating what I did in MX, but that will take forever. It would be much better if MX3 would recognize shortkeys even when it is DNS doing the typing? Thanks for any suggestions! Jeffrey R. Mazor
  19. Thanks so much. I'll give it a try over. I'll first try the keyboard speed idea.
  20. I use a ton of shortkeys for text abbreviations. Problem is that in one window of one program, ME is just too fast. I have inserted an "IF _____ Window Active, then Run Keystroke Delay Macro" statement in a few of the macros, so, when the shortkey is triggered, it checks to see if this problem window is active. If so, it runs the little macro that contains the keystroke delay command and then types out the text. Else it just types out the text. That works fine. Does anyone have any suggestion as to how to either: a. Set some global ME setting so that whenever that particular window is active, any shortkey automatically runs with the keystroke delay; or, b. Some nifty way to insert the "If _______ Window Active, then Run Keystroke Delay Macro" lines as the first lines in 150 or more macros? Thanks, Jeffrey R. Mazor, Esq. J. R. Mazor & Associates, P.A. Presidential Circle Building 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 265-s Hollywood, FL 33021 Phone: 954-962-3500 Fax: 954-962-3560 Email: JMazor@Mazor.com
  21. PROBLEM SOLVED I can't believe that I didn't think of this. Long ago, before Macro Express, I used WordPerfect's QuickCorrect feature to "expand" "abbreviations" like ".pba" to type out "Please be advised". Once I started using Macro Express, so that I could have that nice feature in every program, I shut off QuickCorrect. But when I installed the new version of WordPerfect, I did not realize that QuickCorrect would be ON by default. Nothing was wrong. Its just that both programs "fired" when I typed a shortkey that they both knew, and I got almost two strings for the price of one. As Roseanne Rosanna Danna would say..........."never mind"! Jeff Mazor
  22. Please folks! Someone must have the curiosity to solve this puzzle!....Please! I've done some more testing, and I found something very interesting. I tried modifying the macro to slow it way down. The shortkey is 5 characters long ".AffF" and its suppossed to type out "Affidavit as to Reasonable Attorney's Fees". This is the code: <SPEED:00010><SPKEY:0100><TEXTTYPE:Affidavit as to Reasonable Attorney's Fees> It seems that this is what happens: 1. The macro must be doing 5 destructive backspaces, cause the ".affF" is gone. 2. Then it types out "Affidavit as to Reasonable Attorney's Fees" very fast, apparently completely ignoring the macro and keyboard speed settings. 3. Then it seems to do another very fast 5 destructive backspaces! 4. Then it very SLOWLY types out ""Affidavit as to Reasonable Attorney's Fees". It is almost as if the macro fires twice, but the first time it ignores the speed settings and the second time it pays attention to them. Please. Does anyone have any good ideas on this? Thanks, Jeffrey R. Mazor, Esq. J. R. Mazor & Associates, P.A. Presidential Circle Building 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 265-s Hollywood, FL 33021 Phone: 954-962-3500 Fax: 954-962-3560 Email: JMazor@Mazor.com
  23. This is driving me nuts. On my new computer (3.2, dual core), but not on my older 1.8 gig machine, this shortkey (".pba") text type macro types out as shown, regardless of whether its set to type normally or paste from the clipboard. Note that the full text is supposed to be "Please be advised that", but the "that" is left out of the first part of the resulting text: MACRO: <TEXTTYPE:Please be advised that> TYPES: Please be advised Please be advised that When I slow the keystroke speed, it quickly types the first part, then pauses, and then repeats itself: MACRO: <SPKEY:1000><TEXTTYPE:Please be advised that> TYPES: Please be advised Please be advised that Even when I add playback and delays, the typing slows down, but it still types as follows, which is even screwier: MACRO: <SPEED:00005><SPKEY:1000><TEXTTYPE:Please be advised that> TYPES: Please be advised that se be advised at This problem does not occur with all of my similar macros. By the way, I disabled a similar shortkey macro ".pbator", but that made no difference. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? Jeffrey R. Mazor, Esq. J. R. Mazor & Associates, P.A. Presidential Circle Building 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 265-s Hollywood, FL 33021 Phone: 954-962-3500 Fax: 954-962-3560 Email: JMazor@Mazor.com
  24. Help! I think I have a good idea, but I can't figure out how to do it! We are all familiar with toolbars that can be located in the Windows Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. They save tons of time because they are always available and will start a program and pass a parameter automatically, no muss, no fuss. For example: * The "Address" toolbar where you can type in a URL, press enter, and IE will open then go to that site. * Similarly, "Dave's Quick Search Deskbar" which has a little fill-in box that sits in the Taskbar, into which you can type some search terms, press enter, and it will open IE, start Google, and do a Google search. I'd like to do the same thing with MacroExpress. I'd like to set up a MacroExpress toolbar that has a little window like the Address toolbar and maybe a little menu. The user would type in the term or parameter, press enter, and ME would then start a macro that would use the parameter. For example, the macro might be set to open my contact manager and use the parameter to look up all contacts whose names contain the parameter. A variation might do the same thing, but first pop-up a menu of macros with radio buttons or something, so that the user could tell ME which macro to run and use the typed-in parameter. Can anyone think of a way to do this? Thanks, Jeffrey R. Mazor J. R. Mazor & Associates, P.A. Presidential Circle Building 4000 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 265-s Hollywood, FL 33021 Phone: 954-962-3500 Fax: 954-962-3560 Email: JMazor@Mazor.com
  25. Thank you both for your input. I have a followup question, please: Is there any way to have a shortkey place the shortkey itself into a variable? For example, if the shortkey is "xyz", I'd like the first command in the macro to be: "Set Variable %T1% to "Current Shortkey" So that after the command runs, %T1% will equal "xyz". I want to do this because I then will have the program go through a CSV file and look for the record that matches the shortkey. In this case, the record that contains "xyz" in one of its fields. Jeff Mazor
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