Generate Guid With Macro Express?

[paulcrowder]

Is there any way to generate a new GUID using Macro Express? I have a macro that will do this in Visual Studio.NET, but I'd like to have one that would work in any program.

[kevin]

Macro Express does not have a built-in GUID generator. However, a quick Google search for 'GUID Generator' turned up several links including one website that will generate a GUID and a free program you can download from Microsoft. Here is the link to the Microsoft GUID Generator program: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

 

Once you have a program that generates GUIDs, you can run the program from within a macro using the Program Launch macro command. If the GUID Generator can put the GUID on the clipboard, then you can have the Macro Express macro load it from the clipboard using the Variable Set String %T1% from Clipboard command. The documentation for the Microsoft program indicates that it can copy the GUID to the clipboard.