Macro Express

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{{Infobox software

| name = Macro Express

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| developer = Insight Software Solutions

| latest_release_version = 3.11.1.1{{cite web|title=Revision History|url=https://macros.com/revise.htm|publisher=Macro Express|accessdate=2017-08-10}}

| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2017|8|10}}

| operating_system = Microsoft Windows

| genre = Automation utility

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| website = [https://www.macros.com/ www.macros.com]

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Macro Express is a Windows-based application that allows automation of routine functions, such as filling out web forms, opening programs, and performing mouse clicks, by means of a simple, specialized programming language with support for variables, if-then-else logic, loops and other functions.

Features include recording of the user's actions into macros, a visual programming language,{{cite web|title=Macro Express presentation |url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/acqlic/tc/macro_express/macro_express.ppt |publisher=University of Florida |accessdate=2012-01-13 |author=Julia Allen, Jason Fleming |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318092629/http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/acqlic/tc/macro_express/macro_express.ppt |archivedate=2014-03-18 |page=10 |url-status=dead }} sending email, window repositioning and resizing, text file processing, and file manipulation. Macros can be launched via a hotkey, or automatically triggered when a process starts or terminates, when a network connection has been made or released, when a file change occurred in a folder, or based on the contents of the clipboard.

See also

  • {{Annotated link|AutoIt}}
  • {{Annotated link|AutoKey}}
  • {{Annotated link|AutoHotkey}}
  • {{Annotated link| Automator (macOS)|Automator}}
  • {{Annotated link|Bookmarklet}}
  • {{Annotated link|iMacros}} for Firefox
  • {{Annotated link|Keyboard Maestro}}
  • {{Annotated link|KiXtart}}

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