Not sure where would be most appropriate group (or online forum) in
which to post this obscure query. But, although it's slightly OT here,
I though maybe someone might have seen similar behaviour when writing
Excel macros?

For background, I'm trying to write a macro to repeat a series of
tedious operations in Windows Movie Maker. Not with Excel VBA, but
using Macro Express, although that seems irrelevant to the actual
problem.

The first step of the macro is to r-click a button to bring up its
context menu. To limit my macro entirely to keystrokes, with no mouse
operations, I'm using the equivalent Shift+F10. The frustrating thing
is that *sometimes* manually keying Shift+F10, with the button
selected, just doesn't work! So obviously the macro doesn't work
reliably. And, after the first failure, it continues to fail. Instead
of bringing up the button's context menu, it brings up the context
menu for the surrounding area. IOW, it acts as if the button wasn't
selected. But as soon as I use a mouse r-click instead, that
immediately opens the correct context menu. Exasperating!

Anyone with any thoughts on possible causes please, or on appropriate
groups/forums to enquire?

Movie Maker is itself a bit flaky in some areas, so I suspect maybe
this is unique to that application. But I'd be interested to hear of
any other instances in which Shift+F10 doesn't deliver.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:

Not sure where would be most appropriate group (or online forum) in
which to post this obscure query. But, although it's slightly OT here,
I though maybe someone might have seen similar behaviour when writing
Excel macros?

For background, I'm trying to write a macro to repeat a series of
tedious operations in Windows Movie Maker. Not with Excel VBA, but
using Macro Express, although that seems irrelevant to the actual
problem.

The first step of the macro is to r-click a button to bring up its
context menu. To limit my macro entirely to keystrokes, with no mouse
operations, I'm using the equivalent Shift+F10. The frustrating thing
is that *sometimes* manually keying Shift+F10, with the button
selected, just doesn't work! So obviously the macro doesn't work
reliably. And, after the first failure, it continues to fail. Instead
of bringing up the button's context menu, it brings up the context
menu for the surrounding area. IOW, it acts as if the button wasn't
selected. But as soon as I use a mouse r-click instead, that
immediately opens the correct context menu. Exasperating!

Anyone with any thoughts on possible causes please, or on appropriate
groups/forums to enquire?

Movie Maker is itself a bit flaky in some areas, so I suspect maybe
this is unique to that application. But I'd be interested to hear of
any other instances in which Shift+F10 doesn't deliver.

No one with any thoughts on this please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK