Can someone explain what Automater is to me, in simple terms?

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Hi Tracy

Launch Automator and select "Help Viewer Help?" from the Help Menu. One of the things you'll see listed there is:

*+Discover Automator+*
+Create time-saving automations without programming a single line of code.+

I'm currently on a mac running 10.4 but I can't see it being that different for 10.5? If you click on the link you get this explanation:

+Automator is an innovative personal automation assistant that makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks. Automator lets you skip the complex programming and scripting that is normally required to create automations. Individual steps called actions can be assembled into a complete task by dragging actions into an Automator workflow. You can run your completed workflows repeatedly, and even share them with others.+

If you scroll down that help page there are more explanations and examples. Is that simple enough for you?

Tony