I’m working to learn healing and running a lot of dungeons as a result.  It’s amazing the number of people who don’t know about Findle’s Loot-a-Rang, but the dungeons are run so fast there’s no time to type a “hey, look at this” message.  Even with the macro half the time no one sees the message in chat but hey, I can try.

Since I’m doing the macro thing on other stuff I thought I’d create one linking the loot-a-rang and a “hey look!”.  Did you know you can use a macro to link an item in chat?  You don’t even need an addon.  Pretty nifty stuff here . . .

And this is what I ended up with, all properly linked.  It’s exactly the number of characters allowed in a macro.

/run SendChatMessage(” [Findle’s Loot-A-Rang]  makes looting a simple pause and cast. Available at AH”,IsInGroup(2) and “instance_chat” or IsInRaid() and “raid” or IsInGroup()  and “party” or “say”)

This blurts the message with a single click regardless of where I am and is exactly the number of characters allowed by the macro utility.  If you want to add more characters than this you’ll need a macro addon that has an extend feature.  I use Macro Toolkit though it wasn’t necessary for the above macro.