A Point and click form


In You Can Author you fill in a form to write a sentence that says what you want to do. For example, to start a program on your PC you will select the start program sentence from the Menu. The start program form is opened as shown below:


Download You Can Author Repetitive File Management Suite to automate file copy, file rename

Buy Repetitive File Management Suite to automate file management easier than creating bat file

play video showing how much easier than creating bat fileSee how easy it istab
(4 min. video)


sentence entry form to automate starting a program like a bat file


In the program-name drop-down list you can choose to provide the program name by keying it, or browse to find it with an Explorer, or you can select the name of the program from the drop-down list of common programs including word processors, browsers and so on. 


As an example, the completed form shown below will start Internet Explorer at Google.com. Note the sentence draft at the top:

sentence entry #2 to automate starting program shows it's better than creating a bat file

The advanced form provides for the use of variables and other options.