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Table of Contents

Introduction
- Features
- Special benefits
- PhraseExpress integration
Installation
- Windows installation
  - Portable use
- MacOS installation
  - Important macOS settings
    - Troubleshooting macOS system permissions
- Upgrade
First steps
- Program window
- Tray icon
Creating macros
- Record with Macro Recorder
  - Recording tips
- Smart Record
- Build macro step-by-step
  - Hotkeys
- Record from PhraseExpress
Playback
- Playback properties
- Trigger macros by hotkey
- Schedule playback
Editing macros
- Overlays
- Labels
- Search labels
- Comments
- Delete actions
- Search & Replace
- Line numbers
- Group actions
Mouse actions
- Mouse click
- SmartClick
- Mouse move
- Mouse scroll-wheel
- AI – Object search
Keyboard actions
- Keypress
- Hotkey
- Text output
- Phrase insertion
Wait functions
- Wait time
- Wait until time
- Wait for hotkey press
- Wait for text input
- Wait for file event
- Wait for pixel color change
- Wait for change on desktop
Bitmap/OCR
- Find image on screen
- Find text on screen (OCR)
Capture features
- Bitmap capture (Screenshot)
- Text capture (OCR)
- Barcode or QR code data
- Extract text from webpage (scraping)
AI
- AI text processing
- AI image analysis
- AI image generation
Variables
- Create new variable
- Use variables
- Calculation
- Save variable into file/clipboard
- Data list
Control functions
- Window focus
- Execute program
- Embed another macro
- Goto
- Repeat
- If-Then-Else
Parameter Change (deprecated)
- Randomize (deprecated)
- Increment (deprecated)
- Parameter list (deprecated)
Debugging tools
- Show notification
- Show message box
- Beep
- Variable Explorer
- Breakpoints
- Disabling actions
Macro files
- Load macro
- Save macro
- Export as macro file
- Export to CSV
- Export to PhraseExpress
- Macro file shortcut
Settings
- Recording
- Playback
- Hotkeys
- User interface
- Internet
  - Software Update Check
- AI
- Reset settings to defaults
Licensing
- License Registration
- License Removal
- Maintenance renewal
- License status
Command-line parameters
Uninstallation
Reference
- Search area restriction
- Image detection methods
- File locations (Windows)
Troubleshooting
- General
- Window focus change
- Mouse clicks
- SmartClick
- Image Recognition
- Text Recognition (OCR)
- Keyboard output
- Optimizations for games

Table of Contents

Introduction
- Features
- Special benefits
- PhraseExpress integration
Installation
- Windows installation
  - Portable use
- MacOS installation
  - Important macOS settings
    - Troubleshooting macOS system permissions
- Upgrade
First steps
- Program window
- Tray icon
Creating macros
- Record with Macro Recorder
  - Recording tips
- Smart Record
- Build macro step-by-step
  - Hotkeys
- Record from PhraseExpress
Playback
- Playback properties
- Trigger macros by hotkey
- Schedule playback
Editing macros
- Overlays
- Labels
- Search labels
- Comments
- Delete actions
- Search & Replace
- Line numbers
- Group actions
Mouse actions
- Mouse click
- SmartClick
- Mouse move
- Mouse scroll-wheel
- AI – Object search
Keyboard actions
- Keypress
- Hotkey
- Text output
- Phrase insertion
Wait functions
- Wait time
- Wait until time
- Wait for hotkey press
- Wait for text input
- Wait for file event
- Wait for pixel color change
- Wait for change on desktop
Bitmap/OCR
- Find image on screen
- Find text on screen (OCR)
Capture features
- Bitmap capture (Screenshot)
- Text capture (OCR)
- Barcode or QR code data
- Extract text from webpage (scraping)
AI
- AI text processing
- AI image analysis
- AI image generation
Variables
- Create new variable
- Use variables
- Calculation
- Save variable into file/clipboard
- Data list
Control functions
- Window focus
- Execute program
- Embed another macro
- Goto
- Repeat
- If-Then-Else
Parameter Change (deprecated)
- Randomize (deprecated)
- Increment (deprecated)
- Parameter list (deprecated)
Debugging tools
- Show notification
- Show message box
- Beep
- Variable Explorer
- Breakpoints
- Disabling actions
Macro files
- Load macro
- Save macro
- Export as macro file
- Export to CSV
- Export to PhraseExpress
- Macro file shortcut
Settings
- Recording
- Playback
- Hotkeys
- User interface
- Internet
  - Software Update Check
- AI
- Reset settings to defaults
Licensing
- License Registration
- License Removal
- Maintenance renewal
- License status
Command-line parameters
Uninstallation
Reference
- Search area restriction
- Image detection methods
- File locations (Windows)
Troubleshooting
- General
- Window focus change
- Mouse clicks
- SmartClick
- Image Recognition
- Text Recognition (OCR)
- Keyboard output
- Optimizations for games

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