Duplicate Global Macro Group

[halloleo]

I have noticed in the list of Macro Groups I have to entries "Global Macro Group":

One of these groups contains the macros as I expect, the other one is empty. - Strangely the empty group I cannot delete!

What's going on here?

[martin]

Hey @halloleo,

The one you can't delete is a default macro groups that ships with the package you paid for. Everybody has it.
You may change its icon though.

There have been a few discussion on it already. See, for instance, this:

Global Macro Group cannot be renamed

The Global Macro Group is always named the Global Macro Group and cannot be disabled. If you want to be able to disable or change the activation of the group, make a new macro group called Mostly Global Macro Group or whatever you want and move your macros there. It is a bug that the View ➤ Disable Macro Group is enabled for the Global Macro Group and appears to disable the Global Macro Group. Indeed, it only appears to disable it, it beeps to complain when you do that and the group remains e…

[halloleo]

Thanks Martin. This somehow makes sense.

But why do I have a second one? Why should I have created a secondary group with the same name? And to fix this, can't I just move all macros from the (probably later) created group to the fixed group (and then delete the secondary group)?

[martin]

The default one has limited functionality. For instance, you can't Rename or Disable it. If you want a global macro group that maybe disabled, then it makes perfect sense to create another one. You may, however, rename it to whatever more memorable name.

In a word, if you are ok with it (not being able to be renamed or disabled etc.), you may move all global macros to the default one and delete the other.

[halloleo]

Thank you!

[tiffle]

@halloleo

But why do I have a second one?

You might possibly have imported someone else’s macro (in a .kmmacros file) which they had exported from their own duplicate Global Macros group, which would have been created for you on import resulting in the duplicate group.

I hope that makes sense!

[halloleo]

That's probably it. That totally makes sense!

Thanks a lot for chiming in.