Where is the user macro file?
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 @guy038 Thanks everyone, lots to learn now! I’m just trying to simply automate web page creation for my static site. 
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 @PeterJones I’m unfamiliar with scripting, is this also described in the manual? I have no programming skills, I only use Notepad++ for writing web pages and CSS files, so I’m hoping scripting is a straightforward feature… 
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 @Harry-Goldhagen said in Where is the user macro file?: I’m unfamiliar with scripting, is this also described in the manual? I have no programming skills, I only use Notepad++ for writing web pages and CSS files, so I’m hoping scripting is a straightforward feature… Because scripting is done with a plugin, it wouldn’t be in the N++ manual. If you have “no programming skills”, probably best to stay away from scripting. Unless you have a burning desire to acquire some of those skills. 
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 @Alan-Kilborn Thanks, looks like I’ll stick to macros! By the way, I must say this is one of the most helpful forums I’ve ever used! The NPP crowd is very helpful. Glad a friend of mine recommended that I use it for html coding. 
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 @Harry-Goldhagen said in Where is the user macro file?: Glad a friend of mine recommended that I use it for html coding. Just don’t ask your HTML coding questions here! 
 We don’t take kindly to that!
 :-)
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 @PeterJones said in Where is the user macro file?: @Alan-Kilborn said in Where is the user macro file?: Peter, I don’t know that info currently in the manual is anywhere close to as good as what you (and possibly I, if you agree) have said in this thread. Yep: usermanual issue #139 created and assigned to me. Pull Request #140 submitted. ( @Alan-Kilborn , during my investigation, I confirmed that cloud actually beats doLocalConf, rather than the other way around as you phrased it.) 
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 @PeterJones said in Where is the user macro file?: I confirmed that cloud actually beats doLocalConf, rather than the other way around as you phrased it. Interesting. 
 It seems like the xml file should beat everything else, but I guess not.
 At least it is documented well now.
 Thanks to your efforts.
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 More upcoming work for Peter on this: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/9287 :-( 
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 @Alan-Kilborn said in Where is the user macro file?: :-( It’s only going to be another sentence or two. Not a killer addition. ;-) created usermanual issue #141 
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 Hello,@Harry-Goldhagen 
 In Windows, the macros are saved at %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.XMLOr In Windows < 7 the macros are saved at C:\Documents and Settings%username%\Application Data\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml 
 In Windows 7|8|10 C:\Users%username%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml
 Note: You will need to close Notepad++ if you have any new macros you want to ‘export’.I hope this information will be useful to you. 
 Thank you.
