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Macros for Powercards

I have done a lot of searching on this issue, but some of the answers lead me back to a bit of confusion, so I am hoping that I can get a definitive answer here. I have made (as Keith suggests) a "Macro Sheet" for all my main macros, which I use.  For those macros specific to individual players, I have created those macros as "Abilities" on their individual character sheet, and most seem to work flawlessly.  I was in the process of doing the same for one of my players, who is playing a level 7 Battle Master Fighter (5e D&D, using the default by Roll20 sheet) and set up powercards for each of his maneuvers.  The problem I ran into was when I attempted to make a macro to call them via a query. Which lead to a lengthy search...  which lead me here. :) Am I correct in understanding that what needs to happen if I want to have a macro on his sheet call the powercards macros on the same sheet is that all of the | , and } need to be replaced - in all the macros (both the caller and the called) in order to work?  Or is there another (hopefully less time consuming) way to do it?  I saw it suggested that they be used in a Chat Menu rather than a query, which would be fine too, but I can't seem to get that macro to work at all.
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Ziechael
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Given the syntax used in powercards, I'd absolutely use a chat menu otherwise you've got a lot of replacements to do which will prevent you using them as standalone calls too. With that in mind, what is your current not-working version of the chat menu looking like? We'll do our best to help you get it running? :D
I found the issue with the chat menu - I was trying to use # instead of ~... complete PEBCAK issue, not anyway related to code. :D