AutoIT: Mimic User Activities with Files

There was a need for us to perform some user activities while our servioces were running on a system. The activities would be pertaining to file and as below:

1. Opening an instance of excel, winword or wordpad.

2. Writing some text in the opened instance.

3. Saving the file with a filename on the C:\

Script:

Here's the AutoIT script that would perform the above mentioned operations in an excel sheet.

; Run Excel

Run("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.exe")

WinWaitActive("Microsoft Excel - Book1")

sleep(500)

Send("{F2}")

sleep(500)

;writing into excel

$i = 0

Do

Send("=rand()")

Send("{ENTER}")

$i = $i + 1

Until $i = 500

; Finished!

;saving the document

Send("!f")

sleep(500)

Send("a")

WinWaitActive("Save As")

sleep(500)

Send("C:\Excel")

Send("{ENTER}")

sleep(1000)

Send("!{F4}")