At 08:11 PM 8/1/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>I have 2 or more USB devices that are recognised as Keyboards by HID.
>
>They are RFID readers. They work fine placing the readings into
>XP/Excel in the active cell. All devices read to the same active
>cell/column.
>
>However I want to be able to log each reader separately. How do I get
>XP to recognise which keyboard (reader) is giving the reading, and put
>a tag on/with the reading so that when in Excel it can be seen which
>keyboard it was.

Configure each wedge [or scanner] to prepend or append a string to the
input - it would definately NOT be done in XP (it thinks you're typing that
input on the keyboard).

It'd be up to you to create an event in Excel to parse the prefix or suffix
& drop the data accordingly.

HTH,

Lee