<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM, mike thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrmthorntonlinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrmthorntonlinux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The suits have recently hired 30+ special projects people to manually correct billing errors, which were caused by operator error in the first place.<br>
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.<br>
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It pains me to watch this process, but I'm at a loss since I spent decades avoiding the MS world.<br>
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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 ?<br>
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