[ale] automating Cut and Paste in windoze

[Charles Shapiro]

IIRC the GUI has some (extremely limited) scripting features, at least as
of XP.  I suspect the answer a real Windows Guy would give you is
"VBScript", but my experiences with that language have not been easy.

-- CHS



On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, mike thornton
<mrmthorntonlinux at gmail.com>wrote:

> The suits have recently hired 30+ special projects people to manually
> correct billing errors, which were caused by operator error in the first
> place.
> At this point the human factor is required, but the time spend moving a
> field from one app to another and then scanning the screen output is about
> as fast as using an etch-a-sketch.
>
> It pains me to watch this process, but I'm at a loss since I spent decades
> avoiding the MS world.
>
> The question is, can Perl or other languages interact with MS office and
> web based apps to automate the process and extract the pertinent
> information ?
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