Dear Shawn, Of course you can. Just go to the Options menu->Preferences->Editor->Code templates and add a new template. The template name will be the trigger (writing part of the name and then hitting Ctrl-Space will expand the template in the editor) and you'll have to associate the template with the right editor (XML Editor probably in your case). Maybe this short movie would help: http://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/codeTemplates/codeTemplates.html Regards, Radu. -- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com Shawn McKenzie wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to define macros to insert elements. For instance, I would like to be able to have authors easily insert something like <keyword conref="../common/vars.xml#prod"/> all at once without them having to insert the element, insert the attribute and then type the value of the attribute. Any way to automate this with oXygen? _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com http://www.