I have several macros that clean a text according to what I need it to be clean. Example, one to replace all smart quotas by regular quotas, one to replace all smart apostrophes by regular apostrophes and so one. All these macros are called when I type !clean. Because all them are triggered by !cle…

You don't need to lift your hands from the keyboard though! just hit the letters and then another palette will appear if there is still a conflict. For example your "Smart Apostrofe" will be triggered if you type the letters 'sa" from that conflict palette. It is how I do a lot of things. The trigge…

fantastic. I was not aware about that! KM is more amazing than I thought.

I will add that nearly all my use of Keyboard Maestro is through palettes. The key sequences of some macros are now so automatic that I don't really 'see' the palettes as they arise. It feels just like typing a string really and being away from the mouse or trackpad really matters to me. I really wo…

Assigning a number to a macro, is that possible?

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tiffle November 26, 2023, 2:10pm 2

Since you’ve already worked out the solution for yourself that’s great. But if you have a large number of these macros to rename you might want to look at @DanThomas utility macro that’ll help you out:

Assigning a number to a macro, is that possible?

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