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BRK has a tremendous affinity for the airman of the US Air Force. He was proud to serve for ten years before leaving for green pastures with Mrs BRK at NASA. Electronic Warfare, Signals Intelligence, Communications Intelligence, and Defensive Electronic Countermeasures were his specialties. He was lucky enough to be part of the U-2 program in England, Saudi Arabia, and California, the ALQ-184 pod for F-16s in Japan, and a final stint in Air Force Special Forces. So when we at the BRK Aerospace Research Center’s Tool Crib and Snack Bar receive an email from an airman at Luke AFB, we’re duty-bound to reply.

Someday BRK will tell his story of how he received an Air Force Achievement Medal and a Letter of Reprimand for the same incident, but for now:

“How Do We Write Macros”

Instead of reinventing the wheel, there is a very nice, simple text tutorial at WoW Info that I’m going to cut-and-paste here:

Type /macro, /m, or click on the Macros button in the Main Chat Menu. A box will appear with your current macros. You should have no macros to start.

Click on “New” at the bottom of that box. Another box will pop up, with a place to enter the macro name and a choice of an icon for the macro.

You can select the tabs at the top to pick whether your macro will be a general macro for all of your characters or a macro just for your specific character.

Name your macro. Select a name that will make sense to you when you see it again. For example, “Assist”.

Select an icon. Let’s pick a sword.

Select “Okay” – You should now see the icon you selected (sword) along with your icon name in your current macros box (assist).

Now Left-Click on the assist icon to highlight it. There is a button there to change the name or icon for your macro if you later decide to rename it or select a different icon.

Once your assist icon is highlighted, move your mouse pointer into the “Enter Macro Commands” box. This is where you can type what you want the button to do when you press it. You will need to add a “/” in front of the command, if it is a slash command, just as you would enter in your text entry box.

Type “/Assist Nebu”.

Move your mouse pointer back over the sword icon (assist) and left-click and hold down the button over the icon.

Now, drag the icon over to an empty slot on your action bar.
To use your new macro icon, press the number associated with that action button, or right-click on the button itself.

You now have a macro button that will assist another player (Nebu) in their attack. When Nebu attacks a player or monster, press your Assist macro button and you will automatically select the same target Nebu is attacking.

When you are done editing or creating macros, click the “x” in the top right-hand side of the box to close the macro window.

I hope that gets you started, Airman. Someday when you’re in charge of Swing Shift, remember that the order to, “Get all your work done and get it done right, and you can go home early,” is the best motivational speech you can give.

Edit: Mrs Damh’s first reaction after reading this post was, “Why didn’t you mention my Joan Orr Spouse of the Year Award?” I said, “Because you lost at the PACAF competition to a colonel’s wife and BRK doesn’t roll with losers.” BRK is currently nursing a few broken fingers, so posts this weekend shall be fewer than normal.

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