Re: Send "Crtl+M" to indesing via VBscript.

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From: Chris_Haas
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:01

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Here's a test script that should launch notepad and write some words in it.
It uses a 5 second (5000 ms) delay to ensure that notepad has had enough
time to launch. If you've got NAV installed you'll get a warning, but don't
worry, this is safe. Save this file to your desktop as "Test.vbs" and then
double-click it. Make sure you don't have any other Notepad windows open
before running this. If this works then I'm guessing windows is having a
problem getting the key sequences over to ID. But let me know if this one
works or not.

Option Explicit
Dim myShell

Set myShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
myShell.Run "notepad.exe", 1, False
WScript.Sleep 5000
myShell.AppActivate "Untitled - Notepad"
myShell.SendKeys "This is a test"
Set myShell = Nothing

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