I have several text expansion macros that store a typed trigger (which is also the name of the macro) and a text string in the Keyboard Macro plist file, as shown in this snippet's strings: <key>Actions</key> <array> <dict> <key>Action</key> <string>ByPasting</string> <key>MacroActionType</k…

[image] JMichaelTX: Assuming that you always use an "Insert Text by Typing", one approach is, using AppleScript, to search for an Action by that name, and then get its string value @mrpasini , this caught my interest, so here's a quick-and-dirty AppleScript to get the returned text: property …

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mrpasini July 15, 2021, 5:06pm 6

Thanks very (very) much. That's the ticket!

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Retrieving Data from the Keyboard Maestro plist

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