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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using KEYFAKE.COM
Message-ID: <2003@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 17:00:08 GMT
References: <1243@wjvax.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> I'm using KEYFAKE.COM (written by Charles Petzold) to initialize various
> programs that I use, but I'm having trouble using it with Microsoft Word.  
> If you're a user of Word, then you know that the ESC key toggles between
> the input area and the menu area.  I would like Word to go immediately
> to the menu area upon starting and execute certain commands; however, 
> I can't get KEYFAKE to execute the initial ESC sequence.  Has anyone
> gotten KEYFAKE to simulate pressing the ESC key.  BTY, I tried decimal 27, but
> that won't work; it just produces a left arrow on the screen.

Word 4.0 has a provision for setting up a macro that starts up automatically
when Word starts -- this won't help those of you with Word 3.x, but might
be easier for the 4.0 users than trying to make KEYFAKE work with Word.

Clayton E. Cramer