not_colin Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 I've been experiencing a minor problem with Macro Express. I have various text strings attached to macros activated by a hotkey sequence. For example the text string "Last amended dd mm yy (with the correct date)" is entered when the text string "#L" is entered - where "#" is my prefix key. About 7 times out of 10, I get the text string entered with a # character at the beginning (e.g. #Last amended dd mm yy). I've checked the # key isn't sticking or that I'm not inadvertently activating the repeat key process to no avail. It even happens on my home PC as well as my work one so its not my keyboard. Has anyone experienced anything like this? Colum McAndrew Care Business Solutions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 Hello not_colin! When you say activated by a HotKey, I assume that you really mean activated by a ShortKey. Have you tried placing a delay of, say, 50ms as the first line in the macro? How are the ShortKey options set (Options | Preferences | ShortKeys)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 Typically, this is a result of the program you are running this on. For example, if you run a shortkey in RoboHelp, this happens. ShortKeys (another program from Insight Software that just does text replacement) has this problem in Word. What's going on is that the backspace is occasionally missed by the program, even though Macro Express is sending it. We have been looking into this for a while with limited success. It seems that the main problem is that the OS wasn't designed to accept keyboard input (simulated or otherwise) at speeds that Macro Express is capable of putting it out at. That's not really a fault of MS, either, as the OS has a lot to do in the background that can cause this. Rest assurred, though, that the problem is known and is actively being worked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoodabean Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I have this problem too, what is happening with this issue ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randallc Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Hi, I haven't used shortkeys; but I imagine you can workaround thia with a macro to replace "%T1%" with "#%T1%", then replace "##" with "" , assuming you are unlikely to have "##" in yuor text?? Best, Randall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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