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Can someone give me concise directions as to how to make a macro useable across multiple users? I have tried to follow the directions but I am a little confused. I have put the macro in a shared area and I have done an import. It asks me if I want to import it as shared which I do. I am not sure what that really does as I still have to go into each users setup individually and share the macro. What does importing it as shared do any different than just importing it?
Thanks,
Greg
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When you import file B into file A, macros from file B are copied to file A. They become part of file A. When you add file B as shared file, B macros don't become part of A, but they can be used like they would be part of A, with some limitations. These limitations are: B macros cannot be easily modified and saved. Actually, they can be explicitly saved using menu File -> Export, but only if the user have write access to the shared file.
Add file B for each user as shared file. Whenever you'll make changes in it, they will be automatically propagated to each user when he restarts QM or reloads his main file (auto-reloading can be set in Options). If you would import, to propagate changes you would have to import it again for each user.
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Thanks Gintaras.
So if I understand you correctly is that the process is to put my shared macro in a location that all users can get to and then I have to go into Quick Macros for each user and import that macro as shared. Correct?
Thanks again.
Greg
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