Help with macro for mouse button

Question

Trying to emulate one-touch search (a-la Logitech) using MS Comfort Mouse 4500 and Intellipoint 8.2.

I can get the scroll wheel button to activate the bing search engine when clicked.

I see Intellipoint 8.2 permits macros.

Can someone give me a macro that does the following:

Ctrl-C

www.bing.com/?rb=0

Ctrl-V

Hopefully this should work in any version of windows and make MS mice more attractive to business users.

Would love to see this built into Intellipoint...

Thank you in advance.

Peter Perros, Brisbane Australia

Answer 1

Dear SC Tom

Thank you for alerting me to MMKC. Did not know about it. Will check it out.

I'm trying to do the following:

1. select text with mouse

2. click button on mouse to:

     (a) Copy selected text (Ctrl-C)

     (b) Open default web search engine

     (c) Paste selected text into default web search engine

     (d) Display search results for selected text

Logitech call this one-touch search and I just find it handy. Trying to see if I can do this with old MS hardware before spending $ on Logitech stuff.  Can MMKC do this?

Peter 

Added 18 July 2013:I ended up buying a Logitech MX905 mouse, and it is so good I bought two more for office computers.

Answer 2

I agree; my last wired mouse was an Intellimouse Explorer 3.0, and it was a great mouse. If I hadn't changed desks, I would probably still use it (my new desk isn't "wired mouse" friendly).

I don't have anything for the macro you want. Maybe smittychat's links would provide a solution. Create a VBA macro, then assign the macro name to a mouse button? Don't know, but it might work that way.

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SC Tom

Answer 3

Thanks SC Tom

I edited my question and changed Intellimouse to Intellipoint.  Thank you for pointing this out.  I actually still have and still use an Intellimouse Optical 1.0A 5 button USB mouse - damn fine piece of hardware hopefully collectable.

I was hoping for a solution that would grab selected text, and cut and paste into Bing with just one click of a mouse button.

Peter

Answer 4

You're using IntelliPoint, not IntelliMouse, correct? IP is the software for mice; IM was a mouse :-)

It's been a while since I've used IntelliPoint since Win7 and Win8 now have the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. IIRC, it's similar to MMKC for macros.

Are you wanting to paste Bing into the address space of your browser? If so, rather than use the Ctrl-C to copy, you would create the macro like this:

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0 Enter

Then you would assign that to one of the mouse keys, such as the middle (wheel) button. Then, you would click on the address space to highlight what's there, middle-click, and Bing would be pasted, Enter would act, and your browser would go to the Bing home page.

If that's NOT what you're trying to do, post back and I'll see what I can do for you :-)

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 SC Tom

P.S. I tried that in the MMKC and it worked like a champ. You would use that as an "app-specific" mouse press so your middle click would only do that from within IE.

Answer 5

Hi,

How to Copy & Paste Using VBA

http://www.ehow.com/how_6155906_copy-paste-using-vba.html

VBA: Cut, Copy, Paste from a Macro

http://www.automateexcel.com/2004/08/18/excel_cut_copy_paste_from_a_macro/