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Your first macro

Create a hotword in Makro and watch it expand into a full reply in any text box.

  1. Click the Makro icon in your browser toolbar. The first time you open it, a short setup appears.

    The Makro popup showing its first-run setup.

  2. Choose "Skip", then "Continue", then "Start typing". You can add macro packs later from the Packs tab.

    The Makro popup after setup, ready for a new macro.

  3. Click "+ New" to open a blank macro.

    The + New button highlighted, with a blank macro open.

  4. Give the macro a title, then a hotword. This example uses .intro. Starting hotwords with a dot stops them firing in the middle of normal words.

    The title and hotword fields filled in with Intro reply and .intro.

  5. In the body, type the text you want the hotword to insert.

    The macro body containing a short reply.

  6. Click "Save". The macro appears in your list.

    The saved macro listed in the Makro popup.

  7. Click into any text box on any website and type .intro.

    A reply box with .intro being typed.

  8. Makro replaces the hotword with the full text as soon as you finish typing it.

    The reply box now holding the full reply text.

Not expanding?

Tabs you already had open may need one reload. Check Blocked sites in Makro settings, since Makro stays off on any site listed there. Some pages never allow extensions, such as the Chrome Web Store and the browser settings pages.

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