{"id":279,"date":"2010-08-03T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/us111.siteground.us\/~tlhouse0\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-06-13T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:57:21","slug":"speeding-up-macro-creation-in-ptfb-pro-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/speeding-up-macro-creation-in-ptfb-pro-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up macro creation in PTFB Pro 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In PTFB Pro 4&#8217;s default configuration, creating a macro is a two-step process. You press &#8220;New Macro&#8221; then select the macro type from the resulting screen, or press the right hand side of the New Macro button then choose from the resulting popup menu.<\/p>\n<p>If you typically create a particular kind of macro, you can speed up the process via the &#8220;Configure&#8230;&#8221; screen as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"New Macro Button Action by GammyKnee, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27172079@N08\/4857395956\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4857395956_4cb0ea90c8.jpg\" alt=\"New Macro Button Action\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use Options -&gt; Configure to bring up the Configuration screen.<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8220;Presentation&#8221; screen, locate the entry marked &#8220;Default action for New Macro button&#8221;. There&#8217;s a drop-down list next to it &#8211; choose the option you use most from the list.<\/li>\n<li>Hit Close to save changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now the &#8220;New Macro&#8221; button is dedicated to creating the macro type that you chose, e.g. Window Restore as in the following screenshot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"New Macro Action Winrestore by GammyKnee, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27172079@N08\/4857404482\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4078\/4857404482_98ce4ef76a_o.jpg\" alt=\"New Macro Action Winrestore\" width=\"312\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that you can still create other macro types by clicking on the drop-down part of the button (right hand side) and choosing from the resulting menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptfbpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about automating your workflow with Macros.<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptfbpro.com\/download.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to download a free 30 day trial, no strings attached<\/a>. If you aren&#8217;t entirely happy simply uninstall!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In PTFB Pro 4&#8217;s default configuration, creating a macro is a two-step process. You press &#8220;New Macro&#8221; then select the macro type from the resulting screen, or press the right <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/speeding-up-macro-creation-in-ptfb-pro-4\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation-power-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptfbpro.com\/automate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}