Interesting problem!
 

OK... not entirely Excel... but here's the scoop.

I need to launch excel, with arguments, by way of keyboard emulation.

Specifically, I have a barcode scanner, which thinks it's a keyboard. I
need to be able to present it with a barcode that will create keystrokes
that will launch excel with arguments.

One way to do this would be to use winkey-R to open the Run window... but I
don't believe that the barcode scanner is sophisticated enough to emulate
the Winkey key.

Perhaps there is an ASCII mapping to the winkey? (not likely).

Is there a ctrl-?key? sequence that will also bring up the run window?

Any other tricks I might try?

Thanks!

M

Interesting problem!
 

You could try Ctrl plus Esc followed by the "r" key but if you have a
shortcut pinned to the start menu that begins with r you might select that
before the run line.

I think I'd create a shortcut with the correct command line including
arguments and then set a workable keyboard shortcut for your new windows
shortcut.

Steve


"rci" wrote in message
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OK... not entirely Excel... but here's the scoop.

I need to launch excel, with arguments, by way of keyboard emulation.

Specifically, I have a barcode scanner, which thinks it's a keyboard. I
need to be able to present it with a barcode that will create keystrokes
that will launch excel with arguments.

One way to do this would be to use winkey-R to open the Run window... but
I
don't believe that the barcode scanner is sophisticated enough to emulate
the Winkey key.

Perhaps there is an ASCII mapping to the winkey? (not likely).

Is there a ctrl-?key? sequence that will also bring up the run window?

Any other tricks I might try?

Thanks!

M