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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle"> User Entry</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> This option allows you to insert user entry points into your macro during recording. Having user entry points embedded in your macro lets the person running it interact with NX at those points during playback.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> User entry points are used in conjunction with NX dialogs. A user entry point is terminated when its associated dialog is terminated.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> As an example, your macro generates an arc and you would like to allow the user to provide the radius of the arc. When the appropriate dialog displays during macro recording, you can place a user entry point into the macro by choosing Macro&rarr;User Entry. On terminating the NX dialog, for example through OK, the user entry point closes.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic"> During playback, when an NX dialog with a user entry point displays, the macro pauses, and a small keyboard icon displays on the Status line. The keyboard icon indicates that the macro has stopped at an open user entry point. At this point, you are free to enter your own values in the dialog.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> In some dialogs, simple dialog termination is not available. For example, some dialogs do not contain a set of navigation buttons, such as OK, Cancel, etc. In that situation you may close your user entry point by selecting Tools&rarr;Macro&rarr;Continue User Entry. (This menu item is only available under these conditions.)</p>
      <div class="title_division"> During Record Operations</div>
      <p class="para_division"> If while recording a macro, you complete a user entry point on a dialog with no navigation buttons, use Tools&rarr;Macro&rarr;Continue User Entry Record to terminate the user entry and continue the macro record.</p>
      <div class="title_division"> During Playback Operations</div>
      <p class="para_division"> If while playing back a macro, you complete a user entry point on a dialog with no navigation buttons, use Tools&rarr;Macro&rarr;Continue User Entry Playback to terminate the user entry and continue the macro playback.</p>
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