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Name: prestoward
Date: April 24, 2009 at 02:21:46 Pacific
OS: Windows Vista
Subcategory: Batch
Comment:

I want to make a batch file paste text into programs like a word document. Is there an easy way to do this?



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Response Number 1
Name: IVO
Date: April 24, 2009 at 03:10:51 Pacific
Reply:

NO


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Response Number 2
Name: ghostdog
Date: April 24, 2009 at 11:21:42 Pacific
Reply:

you can use SendKeys with vbscript. eg

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "notepad c:\test\file.txt"
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.AppActivate "Notepad"
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.SendKeys "^{a}"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "^{c}"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "%{F4}"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.Run "write c:\test\file2.txt"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.AppActivate "Writer"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "^{a}"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "^{v}"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "^{s}"
WScript.Sleep 500

alternatively, if you know Perl, you can use the module Win32::Clipboard where it lets you manipulate the clipboard programatically.

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