----- Screen 1 Welcome to the Macro Manager Tutorial Choose Exit (Alt-X) to quit, Next (Alt-N) to go to the next screen or Prev (Alt-P) to go to the previous screen. Follow the instructions on each screen. key02 ----- Screen 2 Macro Manager is a powerful tool that works with any Windows application. The program lets you send any sequence of keystrokes to any application by pressing only two keys. The main Macro Manager screen to your left is called a "macro sheet" in this tutorial. keys02 ----- Screen 3 This step-by-step tutorial will familiarize you with basic Macro Manager concepts. You'll get to try Macro Manager yourself! keys03 ----- Screen 4 Instructions will appear here, in the yellow box. Text you or Macro Manager types will appear here, in the green box. The green box also contains tips and tricks. keybrd03 ----- Screen 5 Macro Manager uses a two key entry system. Pressing a "trigger" key, followed by a letter or number sends a series of keystrokes to your application. This system means Macro Manager won't conflict with Keystrokes for other Windows applications. The triggers are initially defined as the slash or star keys on the numeric keypad. To change Triggers, from Macro Manager, click on ptions, then rigger. Choose one or more of the four triggers. You must pick at least one or Macro Manager won't work. keys01 ----- Screen 6 Lets play back a macro now. Press the trigger key (* or / on the keypad), the small keyboard that appears in the middle of your screen means Macro Manager is working. Press the "A" key. key04 ----- Screen 7 That's all there is to playing back a Macro! Next, we'll learn to record one. Switch to Macro Manager now, then click on the letter K. To use the keyboard instead of the mouse, press CTRL+SHIFT+the letter of the macro. keybrd01 ----- Screen 8 You just saw the full screen editing mode. This is where you type in the keystrokes you want sent to your application when the macro plays. Note that "~" is used for the {ENTER} key. Macro Manager will send {ENTER} to your application each time it sees the ~ key. To send the ~ key itself, enclose it in braces. keybrd02 ----- Screen 9 Experiment a bit now. Click on the letter in Macro Manager. Type your name, then click on "Exit Full Screen Edit" edit. Next, click on the green box below. Press the trigger key and then . Your name should appear in the green box. keybrd03 ----- Screen 10 That's all there is to recording a Macro! You can also record simple macros by clicking on the space or keystrokes appearing next to the letters or numbers and then typing them in. The full screen editor offers more features than editing directly on the macro sheet. key01 ----- Screen 11 You can save Macros groups in files. Use the ile menu on the Main Screen. ew starts a new macro file. oad loads a previously created file. ave saves the current file. Save s saves the current file under a new name. The numbered macros are global macros. They are always available no matter what file is loaded. They are saved automatically. Use them for common macros, such as your address. key02 ----- Screen 12 Macro Manager can handle special functions, such as inserting the date or time, pausing during macro play back and using a numeric counter that increments automatically. Type the trigger key and then . key03 ----- Screen 13 Macro Manager inserted the date in three formats. To include the date in a macro, use {sd}, {md} or {ld} for short date, medium date and long date, respectively. If you only want the day of the week, use {wd}. In full screen edit mode, you can click on the special key you want and Macro Manager automatically inserts it into the macro. To see how the date macros work, click on D in Macro Manager, which will bring up the full screen editor. key04 ----- Screen 14 Macro Manager can insert the time in three formats. Press the trigger key, followed by . keybrd01 ----- Screen 15 Macro Manager inserted the time automatically. To include the time in a macro, use {st}, {mt} or {lt} for short time, medium time and long time, respectively. The formats for short, medium and long dates and times are defined in the Windows control panel. If you change them there, they will also be changed automatically in Macro Manager. keybrd02 ----- Screen 16 Macro Manager can insert pauses into a Macro. When you type in text and then hit {ENTER}, macro playback continues. Press the trigger key and then

. keybrd03 ----- Screen 17 Macro Manager paused twice to accept your input. You can cancel macro playback during a pause by pressing {ESC} or clicking on {CANCEL}. keybrd04 ----- Screen 18 Macro Manager has a numeric counter. This is useful for creating lists. Press the trigger key and then C. keybrd05 ----- Screen 19 Macro Manager created a numbered list. The value in the "counter value" box is printed out each time macro manager sees {#} in a macro. That value is incremented by the value in the "increment value" box. If the increment value is negative, the numbers decrease in value. Decimals are ok. Macro manager automatically saves the value in the counter box when you exit the program, unless you check "Reset Counter on Start" in the "Options" menu. key01 ----- Screen 20 Macro Manager supports other special keys. These are described in the "special keys" section of the HELP file. If special keys are not entered correctly, Macro Manager will give you an error message when you try to playback a macro. key02 ----- Screen 21 Macro Manager will enter special keys for you automatically so you don't have to worry about how to code them. To use this feature, choose Code Mode from the full screen editor. When you are in code mode, any special key you type is entered into the macro, such as an arrow or the HOME, END or TAB keys, etc. key03 ----- Screen 22 Try it now. Click on the letter for any empty macro. Click on "Code Mode" and type some special keys. Watch what happens. Pressing the {PAUSE} key or clicking on "Normal Mode" turns off "Code Mode" keybrd01 ----- Screen 23 If you want to type the trigger key itself when Macro Manager is running, type the trigger key followed by the . The trigger key will be typed in your application." To disable Macro Manager temporarily, while leaving it loaded, check the "disable" box on the main macro sheet. keybrd02 ----- Screen 24 This tutorial has only scratched the surface of what Macro Manager can do. The program offers other features for advanced users. These are more fully described in the Help file. To access help from Macro Manager, press F1. Help is context sensitive, i.e. different help screens come up depending on where you are in Macro Manager. keybrd03 ----- Screen 25 Registered Users: Thank you for using Macro Manager. Please let me know of any suggestions or improvements you can think of. ShareWare Users Thank you for evaluating this program. Be sure to register if it meets your needs. Click on "About" in Macro Manager to see the registration screen. keybrd04