Automation – An Introduction

Automation, Coding, General

Working Smarter, Not Harder Each day, I, as well as countless other individuals set out to repeat the same tasks day after day. Perhaps some aspects of our work changes but there is a lot of core duties that are constant, repetitive, and just dull. Being in a...

Office Automation – Microsoft Flow

Automation, Coding

Microsoft’s Flow is a web based automation service for many apps including a couple of client side apps like Excel. Flow works by waiting for a ‘trigger’ event and then performs some preplanned actions that can be simple up to very complex. We will...

An Introduction to Automation – Part [C]

Automation, Coding

In this segment of introductory programming and automation, we will be discussing the use of MouseClick to interact with an Internet Explorer web browser and move to more reliable, quicker, and more robust methods of interacting with applications. New loop types and...

An Introduction to Automation – Part [B]

Automation, Coding

In this article, we will review methods to incorporate repetitions to our scripting code. Our goal will be to read information from a spreadsheet, use that information, and then store extra data within the source spreadsheet. We will step through all the rows in the...

An Introduction to Automation – Part [A]

Automation, Coding

In the course of operating a sole-proprietary based business, I have had to learn to find advantages to remove time hungry tasks from a dense production schedule. In fact, I have found there are many tasks we perform in our daily business lives that are tedious and...