Saving macro properties
Use the Save As button to save a macro to a location that is different than the current location.
You can choose to save it either to the current session or to your personal macro library
on your local system. This is useful if you want to edit a macro that is located in a server macro library,
for example, because you cannot save macros to the server location.
Macros that you save in your personal macro library on your local drive can be:
- Shared with others: Having macros as individual files apart from the session configuration
allows you to share them with others; for example, you can send and receive them as e-mail attachments.
- Immediately available to all your sessions: If you want to use the same macro across multiple
sessions, you no longer need to record a macro for each individual session. Now you can record a macro once, and it
is immediately available to all your sessions.
- Easily updated for all sessions that use them: When you use the same macro for multiple sessions, and you
make changes to that macro in your personal library, your changes are effective for all sessions that use the macro.
Macro names
When you save a macro to your personal library, the default file name is the
macro name plus a .mac extension. When you save a macro to the current session, the name is simply the macro name.
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