topic Re: ? About Macro feature in Suggestion Box

? About Macro feature

Boehm Collector — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:43:12 GMT

Can this feature be used to store the "@" screen names we sent posts to so we do not have to keep typing in the screen name? if so how does does it work? TIA Maria

Re: ? About Macro feature

MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:25:06 GMT

Let's try it...

Maggie, let us know if you rec'd a notification from my test macro...

@MaggieMack

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MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:26:32 GMT

2nd test (I coded "enter" in the macro)

@MaggieMack

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MaggieMack — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:34:59 GMT

@MacDUFF, yes, I received notifications from BOTH! Share!

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LTT1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:36:37 GMT

@Boehm Collector@MacDUFF@MaggieMack

YAY gonna try it too!

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MaggieMack — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:38:00 GMT

@MacDuff, I did it, too! Cool!

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MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:40:50 GMT

Test 3...multiples, enter coded in...

@MaggieMack
@LTT1
@Bird mama

Maggie, loves, bernie...using your names 'cuz they're the only ones I could remember how to spell...@ feature doesn't pull up in macro.

Boehm, I wasn't sure about yours because I thought there was a problem with screen names with a space in them...?

@Boehm Collector

Re: ? About Macro feature

MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:42:07 GMT

Y'all are a step ahead of me LOL!! They must have fixed the problem with the space and the @ feature or I was mistaken...??

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MaggieMack — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:46:00 GMT

@MacDuff, I don't know anything about the space usage, but I do have to report that I have been blown out of the entire Q site three times after selecting Macro to choose a name. At least it happens BEFORE I have typed my intellectual post, lol!

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LTT1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:07:25 GMT

@MaggieMack @lolakimono

@MaggieMack@Boehm Collector@MacDUFF

I now have a box with a drop-down to choose names, but I had put the name at the top of the macro choice and then typed "enter@MaggieMack"

I need to get rid of the "enter" part!

Re: ? About Macro feature

LTT1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:10:50 GMT

@MaggieMack

@Boehm Collector@MacDUFF

It works now...

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MaggieMack — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:33:44 GMT

@LTT1,

im not sure if mine works or not because your name doesn't publish in color. Did you get to tidied about this post?

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MaggieMack — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:36:16 GMT

Oh, how I love auto correct. NOT!

@LTT1

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millieshops — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 18:55:25 GMT

Ok, I'll bite - what's the macro feature?

I've just been using the drop down menu of @names when I'm responding. What am I missing? TIA Millie

Re: ? About Macro feature

MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:18:20 GMT

@millieshops

Hi millie...

mac·ro

[ˈmakrō]

NOUN

computing
a single instruction that expands automatically into a set of instructions to perform a particular task.

If you use a phrase often...say, for example, at the end of your post you more often than not type "Have a great day," instead of typing that all the time, you can store it in a macro and a few clicks will pull it up for you.

Click on your screen name at upper right, go to settings, click on macro tab. Title the 1st macro HAGD (in first box...I think you can store up to 10 macros). In second box (of the 1st macro) type "Have a great day."

Then, when you are on a thread and you click reply, you'll see a box to the right of the "quote" feature that reads "Macros." Click there, see your title HAGD, click it and your previously typed Have a great day will show up in your post...This is exactly what I did...

Have a great day!

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millieshops — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:21:03 GMT

@MacDUFFWhat a great feature. Thank you so much for the excellent how-to.

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MacDUFF — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:23:10 GMT

@millieshops

On Boehm's case, we were trying to see if we could use a macro for the @ feature (instead of just a phrase such as Have a great day). If you have a group of friends you notify on a regular basis, a group so to speak,you can store them in a macro and never have to type them again. This is nice if the people you want to notify are not in on the discussion and you can't remember how to spell their screen names LOL!

Have a great day!

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LTT1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:02:41 GMT

@MaggieMack

@MacDUFF

It is working on the iPad now too using the Chrome browser!

Than pm you for the ideas and the information!

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LTT1 — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:04:00 GMT

@MaggieMack

My computer time has had some interruptions today?💜

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Boehm Collector — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:01:20 GMT

@LTT1 wrote:
@Boehm Collector @MacDUFF @MaggieMack

YAY gonna try it too!

Okay .. I received your notifications. Now I have to try it. Maria