Hardware Reference
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Figure 40: The Keyboard Maestro editor with a new, blank macro
ready to be customized.
Within the macro pane ( Figure 41 ), you see two areas: the trigger(s) (top) and the action(s)
(bottom). You can configure these two items in any order. A trigger is what you do to make
the macro run—a keystroke, a menu command, or a system event, say. (More about triggers
in a moment.) The action(s) are what happen when the trigger occurs.
Figure 41: The macro pane includes trigger and action areas.
Macro #1: Open Login Items
For the sake of illustration, we'll start by making a macro with a single, simple trigger and a
sequence of three actions. When you run this macro, it will display the Users & Groups pane
of System Preferences, with the Login Items list showing. (Ordinarily, you'd have to open
System Preferences, click Users & Groups, and then, unless Login Items had been selected
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