Help with turning spells into self spells

[mjdoom]

I hit F-1 and then click on the spell I want to cast.  :blush:

Does anyone know how to create a macro that allows me to target someone out of my group for spell casting? IE if I wanted to cast Divine Intervention on Flyndar but he is out of my group I have to sort him out of the crush of bodies for targeting. It would be much easier for me to hit a macro that brings up his portrait for ease of DI'ing on him. (Pun intended) :)

What would be even better would be a macro that not only lets me cast DI on him when I click on it. :D
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Just make a macro similar to an assist macro or a MT macro; one line:

/target Flyndar

If you want the spell cast after it I think the command is something like SpellCastByName("Divine Intervention: Rank x"). Someone more familiar with macros can correct me here or I can check the macros that I have that cast spells when I log on later.

That's it; should work like a charm. Note that target will actually pick the character in range of you with a name most similar to what you have typed. Which means that in the heat of the battle typing /target Flyn into your chat box would probably work, and if Flyndar was out of range it would pick the person in range with a name closest to Flyndar (it can be interesting what it picks some times). I occasionally use the target feature in PvE when I am in big raids and PvP when there is a specific target that I want to keep tabs on (enemy priest for example.)