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HAVE A CONFESSION to make: I still use the old Recorder utility from Windows 3.1.
I may be the only person on the planet who still uses that crummy little macro utility. Years ago I published a method to keep using Recorder, which vanished when Windows 95 came out. (Copy Recorder.exe, Recorder.dll, and Recorder.hlp from a Windows 3.1 installation into a folder containing Windows 95 or later. Recorder macros work in virtually every application.)
Of course, Recorder must be the least-used utility Microsoft ever brought out. Its worst flaw is its inability to edit its own macros.
What Recorder does, however, is so handy that I'm amazed Microsoft killed this utility without replacing it with something better. Everyone has a long address or a company boilerplate phrase that is tedious to manually type. Yes, there are macro languages in many Office applications. But they work only within that one application. What we need is a way to run commands in any application.
So at last I am replacing the creaky old Recorder with Macro Express, a far superior product. Macro...