Surround with characters to a text selection and paste in place

[DanThomas]

You're welcome. There's another topic where we've been discussing this issue, if you're interested:

Text fields in KM macros use smart quotes?

Not useless. It (my macro) seems to work fine in Keyboard Maestro 7.1.1 (7.1.1) on OSX 10.10.5, but for some reason sometimes fails under 10.11.4. But the real solution is to either remove “Smart Copy/Paste” from the KM Editor menu/features, or at least provide a KM Pref to always turn it off. I have found many apps that do one or the other.