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When you record a macro, the macro recorder records all the steps in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. These steps can include typing text or numbers, clicking cells or commands on the ribbon or on menus, formatting cells, rows, or columns, or even importing data from an external source, say, Microsoft Access. Visual Basic Application (VBA) is a subset of the powerful Visual Basic programming language, and is included with most Office applications. Although VBA gives you the ability to automate processes within and between Office applications, it is not necessary to know VBA code or computer programming if the Macro Recorder does what you want.

It is important to know that you when you record a macro, the Macro Recorder captures almost every move you make. So if you make a mistake in your sequence, for example, clicking a button that you did not intend to click, the Macro Recorder will record it. The resolution is to re-record the entire sequence, or modify the VBA code itself. This is why whenever you record something, it's best to record a process with which you're highly familiar. The more smoothly you record a sequence, the more efficiently the macro will run when you play it back.

When you record a macro for performing a set of tasks in a range in Excel, the macro will only run on the cells within the range. So if you added an extra row to the range, the macro will not run the process on the new row, but only the cells within the range.

It is not necessary that only tasks in Excel can be recorded in a macro. Your macro process can extend to other Office applications, and any other applications that support Visual Basic Application (VBA). For example, you can record a macro where you first update a table in Excel and then open Outlook to email the table to an email address.

To assign a keyboard shortcut to run the macro, in the Shortcut key box, type any letter (both uppercase or lowercase will work) that you want to use. It is best to use Ctrl + Shift (uppercase) key combinations, because the macro shortcut key will override any equivalent default Excel shortcut key while the workbook that contains the macro is open. For instance, if you use Ctrl+Z (Undo), you will lose the ability to Undo in that Excel instance.

Although the description field is optional, it is recommended you enter one. Also, try to enter a meaningful description with any information that may be useful to you or other users who will be running the macro. If you create a lot of macros, the description can help you quickly identify which macro does what, otherwise you might have to guess.

You can work with recorded code in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and add your own variables, control structures, and other code that the Macro Recorder cannot record. Since the macro recorder captures almost every step you take while recording, you can also clean up any unnecessary recorded code that serves no purpose in the macro. Reviewing your recorded code is a great way to learn or sharpen your VBA programming skills.

To assign a keyboard shortcut to run the macro, in the Shortcut key box, type any letter (both uppercase or lowercase will work) that you want to use. It is best to use key combinations that don't correspond to existing shortcut keys, as a macro shortcut key will override any equivalent default Excel shortcut key while the workbook that contains the macro is open.

Although the description field is optional, it is recommended you enter one. It's helpful to enter a meaningful description with any information that may be useful to you or other users who will be running the macro. If you create a lot of macros, the description can help you quickly identify which macro does what, otherwise you might have to guess.

Why limit yourself with keyboard and mouse recording? Insert custom commands and statements into your macros: "launch website", "open file", "wait for window", "goto", "shutdown" and many more. Add logic to your macros using the "IF - THEN" statement, "REPEAT X TIMES" statement.

Macro Recorder features an easy and straightforward user interface. Forget about hours wasted on reading manuals. Start using Macro Recorder in seconds. Just click "Record" with your mouse and start working. Watch a video!

Convert your macro to an EXE-file that runs on any windows-compatible computer (feel free to redistribute). To save space and improve performance the resulting EXE file is packed and compressed using the advanced optimization techniques.

Macro Recorder can find images on a screen, detect when a window changes it's position etc. Macro Recorder comes with full windows-shell integration and scheduling. Macros can be edited with the built-in full-featured editor.

All recorded keystrokes and mouse activity can be saved to disk as a macro (script) for later use, bound to a hotkey, extended with custom commands or even compiled to an EXE file (a standalone Windows application). This macro recording program will save you a lot of time on repetitive tasks. You can use the Macro Recorder to automate ANY activity in ANY windows application, record on-screen tutorials.

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I encountered a problem when running and recording an IJ2 command.
So far (at least last time I tested something like that some time ago), recording of IJ2 plugins using the @Parameter recorded all parameters from the auto generated dialog.
Today, I encountered that this did not work anymore. The recorder records still the run("......."); part but without the user defined parameters.
Is there anything I am missing or was there any change in how to code the plugin to make it macro recordable?
Potentially, some interested in the issue could test this on any IJ2 plugin to just confirm if it is a global problem or if I have a mistake in my workflow.
Thanks in advance

I have released image-legacy-0.33.1.jar. Please download it, replace the previous imagej-legacy from your installation, and test as thoroughly as you have time. If no one finds any regressions, I will upload it ASAP.

Note that I do not type in a double / before landmarks.csv. I browse to the file and that is what appears in Big Warp Apply. This also happens (and does not seem to be a problem) when I run Big Warp Apply without running the macro Recorder.

Brief update: script works as expected; thanks!
For anyone that wants to use it: copy the full script into the FIJI script editor and set the language to groovy before running it (this is probably obvious to many folks but was not to me).

Does anyone else wind up enduring the rather frustrating experience of trying to use the Macro Recorder only to find that running macros created by it only works on occasion?
For example I recently created a a macro using Macro Recorder which selects a range of cells then copy/pastes it into another position.

If I run it at one time it will do what was recorded. Try again later, with absolutely no changes made, and it will play up and place data in the wrong position. It has done this numerous times over a long span of time, and in different documents also.

Not only does it occasionally malfunction and copy the data to an entirely different sheet, sometimes it places data in an incorrect position in the sheet it was instructed to place it in, and sometimes it only copies part of the data and not all i.e. not only is the macro behaviour inconsistent, the malfunctions present in a multitude of unpredictable ways!

The only User error I could come up with is that maybe I somehow switched sheet positions, but the fact that the Macros sometimes appear in the wrong position on the same sheet eliminates this as a possible explanation.

Upon running this macro (using a Push Button) the first time, it worked fine. But once I used it another time it copied the information to a completely separate location, writing over some essential (and fairly complicated) formulae in the process.

It only can be happened if you deleted/inserted/renamed some sheets or you have deleted/inserted some rows/columns since the recording time. The macro system will not be informed about these changed state: the code will not be actualized to the changed state.

For example when you use NAMED RANGES in your macros, then the inserted/deleted rows/columns (before/after the named range) will not cause problems. The macro recorder can not recognize the named ranges neither at the recording, nor at the running. You must write the macro code.
API: Application Programming Interface.

Otherwise the Macro Recorder has a very limited capability, and it works in the Calc and Writer applications only.
You can write API based macros for all of the applications, and you can control all of the functions and features what available by the User Interface.

Just bought Afinity Photo Desktop Mac in hopes of moving from photoshop completely. One activity I do a ton of is exporting for web. I'll process a large photo then use a macro to scale the image down to a specific size, then export as a JPG or PNG to a specific folder.

Unfortunately it isn't possible to record Exporting in a macro, however you can create your macro then use Batch Processing to apply the macro to multiple files and export them all in one step. You can find out more about this from the videos below!