jmazor

Thank you so much, Randall! I just saw your reply and I'm studying it now, along with some of your amazing postings. You mention Excel. We use WordPefect and the QuattroPro Spreadsheet program. Do you think the Excel programs you laid out will work with QuattroPro also? Thank you again! Jeff

Overview: My fax server saves incoming faxes as TIFF's, OmniPage auto-detects each, OCR's it and saves a PDF version in an incoming fax folder. Then the user either (a) sends a junk fax file to a Junk folder, or ( opens the folder in Adobe and saves it to one of many case folders. I need to keep a data file audit trail of TIFF & PDF files as they are processed, so that I can know exactly what happened with each incoming fax. I believe that these four fields would be sufficient: 1. Path&FileNameOfOriginalPDF 2. DateTimeReceived 3. Path&FileNameOfSavedPDF 4. DateTimeSaved Since, the PDF's are sequentially numbered (i.e., 01001.pdf, 01002.pdf, etc.), I figured that I'd set up a data file with those fields, initally populating it with a few thousand records where field 1 in each would have the FileName of the anticipated PDF files. I think I need two macros: 1. The first macro would monitor the folder, alert the user when OmniPage creates a new PDF file and enter its create date/time into the DateTimeReceived field. 2. The first macro would also open ExplorerPlus, prompt the user to click on the new file and look at it with the built-in viewer [i sure wish Mx could do that], and ask the user if Mx should move the file to a "junk" folder (i.e., fax spam) or open it in Adobe. If moved to a junk folder, that macro would also complete the last two fields. 3. If opened and then saved Adobe, a trigger would start a second macro which would enter the Path&FileNameOfSavedPDF into Field 3 and the DateTimeSaved into fields 3 and 4. I think I may be able to write a macro to monitor the incoming fax folder for the appearance of #####.pdf, where #####.pdf is the name of the first file record in the data file for which there is yet no corresponding DateTimeReceived value in field 2. 'Problem is that I can't figure out how to write the values for fields 2, 3 and 4 to the correct record in an ASCII data file. I do remember studying BASIC many, many years ago (by torchlight), and that there was a command to open a data file and add values to specified fields. Can you tell me how to add this data to the audit data file? Thanks so much. Jeff

"Nevada" You mentioned using Me with veiwer programs. I want to use Me to help me list a number of PDF files, allow me to select each in succession, see inside each selected file with a viewer (not opening the file), and check off which ones I want to open in Adobe. Do you know of a view that might work for this function? Thanks