What Is Macro ?

Macro is a sequence of actions that the user performes as one operation. For example, if a user wants to create new e-mail message and write "Dear Customer," it requirets several steps. The user needs to click a "New message" button in e-mail client and type "Dear Customer,". This can also be done by playing back macro. In such case only one step is required from the user - start the macro. It is obvious that the user can save significant portion of time if replaces often repeated tasks (typing the same phrases, doing the same file operations, writing the same reply messages, downloading the same files, etc.) by macros. Also, the powerful build-in macro language with 100+ commands opens new horizons in extending Windows capability (multiple clipboards, for example).

Macros can contain any combination of:

- Plain text - Just a regular text like "Hello, how are you.". Playing back such macro is similar to user's typing on computer keyboard.
- Special keys - Special keys like 'Enter', 'Page Down', etc. Playing back such macro is similar to user's typing on computer keyboard. Such keys are described using a special syntax (<enter>, <pgdn>).
- Commands - Commands can perform different kinds of tasks like starting applications, opening files, manipulating windows and much more...

Thanks to visual support (each non-trivial command has its own property dialog box), it is very simple to create macros. All the available commands are organized in easy to navigate tree.

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