You can assign keyboard shortcuts to your macros. I especially like the two-stage ones. With those, you would press something like Ctrl+Alt+M followed by another character. With this you could assign 1-0 and a-z as the continuation characters and have access to 36 macros through the Ctrl+Alt+M key combination.

Keyboard shortcuts are even more efficient than QAT icons since they require no mouse action. Remember to store them in the same template that holds the macros. Note, I do not recommend storing macros in the normal template but rather in a separate Global Template.