If the text needs to be appended to existing text, it is very easy to do this as well. Place some data into a1 to a1000 and run ExampleUSAGE. Open a new session of notepad with the default window caption, "Untitled - Notepad". Here is a very simple example of sending 1000 items in a range to notepad. There are not usually any focus issues, it can transfer data more rapidly, runs asynchronously, there is no need to fiddle with the clipboard, and is altogether more dependable. Using the API has some great advantages over SendKeys. Why not? If, however, this is a procedure that you intend to run repeatedly and dependably for some time, you may wish to look into other methods. It may work well for you and I would try it. I'll use SendKeys for a throw-away procedure. I have not had the success that Brian has had and very rarely use it. '- RUN SAP : THIS INCLUDES SendKeys,API calls & Mouse.
'- INCLUDES CODE TO WRITE MP3 DETAILS TO FILES IN EXPLORER RUN PRINT SCREEN MULTIPLE TIMES AND PASTE PICTURES INTO A WORKSHEET SendKeys I & "", True ' Send ALT+F4 to close Calculator. ReturnValue = Shell("CALC.EXE", 1) ' Run Calculator.ĪppActivate ReturnValue ' Activate the Calculator. '- to mimic keyboard (KeyUp and KeyDown) - ref : Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32.dll"ĭim MyData As DataObject ' clipboard manipulation '- Sometimes Sendkeys does not work at all well, when it is necessary to use API calls '- **Extend these times if things do not work as they should **. '- for a second or two to allow time for things to happen on screen. '- The key to success is to use lots of Application.Wait + DoEvents lines to stop the code '- In practice, with other applications, things become much more complicated.
'- Being a Windows Application this works very easily. '- Uses Windows Calculator to sum numbers 1 to 100 & put the total into the active worksheet '- so SendKeys results appear in the module. we cannot step through code because the code module becomes the active application '- Use keyboard only (not mouse) to get the keystrokes required, then convert to code. '- SIMPLIFIED SENDKEYS EXAMPLE TO RUN AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION I guess the full-blown version of the program has some scripting capabilities (from the documentation I've read), but the Lite version does not. It is actually a terminal emulator (Anzio Lite). Is this possible to do? The third party program is not able to listed as a reference in VBA, but I didn't know if it was possible to at least pass keystrokes to it. move cursor down one line, repeat entire process until active cell is blank press twice to save record before returning focus to the spreadsheet
repeat copy/paste for the next cell to right (in spreadsheet)
moves focus back to spreadsheet, copies the contents of the cell to the right (using ActiveCell.Offset?) moves focus to other app and pastes data from active cell
checks to make sure the sheet is the active sheet Open 3rd party application and go to the appropriate data entry screenģ. Open Excel spreadsheet, go to starting data cellĢ.
My task is simple (just very repetitive, which is why I don't want to spend all day sitting in front of my PC doing this):ġ. I know that there are some higher-end macro recorders that include scripting that you can write and edit, but this our "slow" season business-wise and my supervisor has made it clear that he doesn't want to spend any money right now. I need to have this kind of control for this task and a macro recorder doesn't give me that (at least not these lower-end shareware programs I have been trying). When I use the macro recorder to automate a task in Excel, (such as moving data from one sheet to another or importing data from a text file) I always go in after I'm done recording and add additional code to bullet-proof the macro (make sure the focus is set properly, etc.). I have downloaded and tried a few macro recorders that record keystrokes and mouse movements, but find them to be unreliable at best. Is it possible to write a VBA macro that passes keystrokes to another program? I have a spreadsheet with over 650 UPC codes for new products that have to be entered into our inventory system.