Create Bulk Macros

[peternlewis]

One way to batch create a bunch of similar macros is something like done in this macro:

Create Text Expansions Macro

Here is a macro that lets you create simple text expansion macros. Simply fill in the text of the action with lines like: trigger:text where trigger is the Typed String trigger you want and text is the text you want to expand to. Then select all the actions and click the Try button at the bottom to run them once and it will create a macro for each expansion. There is no trigger on the macro since its not going to be a macro you want to run except occasionally. Note that to create a new exp…

However note that creating a hot key trigger requires knowing the keycode rather than the key, so that may be an issue for you. You can likely find a table mapping ASCII keys to key codes online, as the keycodes are standard for most english keyboard.