Why is there a "Macro Group" that you can put marcos into? Marcros are simply multiple commands which are attached to one button.

Why is there a separate section called Macro Groups? Why dont you simply just have the buttons on the Device Panels?

Am I missing something here?

There is a seperate Macro group for if you are programming on the remote itself.
If you are programming using the PC, it is no different to the other side.

I personally have the amp/receiver and lighting and other bits on the macro side.
I have the other devices on the right hand side.

Cheers,
Bruce

IN PE sections don't matter (Home, device and macro) and they are all equivalent. But on the Pronto they are not. On the Pronto each section does its own stuff.
Home: was a built to be autogenerating and work as a table of contents (TV, DVD....)
Device: was built for IR codes and each button has the ability to learn one command.
Macro: each button can access (alias) many other buttons, but they cannot learn any commands.

How are macros/devices used with PE.
1) if a button needs to be able to learn, it needs to be on the device side (not a big problem since you can later move it in PE and you don't tend to relearn often)
2) If (more important then 1) you want to be able to change commands in macros (timers) on the fly you need that button on the macro side (for example, during the Olympics I added a macro panel that had 4 rectangular buttons on it, I used Vol+ and - for the two Canadian channels covering the Olympics and one of the soft buttons for the US channel, the other four, I could change at any time to any channel I was more interested in)
3) (most used) when you flip from one device (macro group) to the next using the menu it opens the last panel you were at. When you flip between Macro, device and home, it opens up the last panel accessed in that section it can be used as a limited back function.