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Book IX
Chapter 1
Recording and
Using Macros
Doing the Macro Recorder Dance
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6. Set the Store Macro In drop-down list to the location where you want
to store the macro.
The default setting stores the recorded macro in the Normal.dotm tem-
plate so that it’s always available. The other choices available in this
drop-down list are storing the macro in the document that you were
working on when you called up the macro recorder or storing the macro
to the template that document is based on.
7. Click OK to begin recording the macro.
8. Type the keystrokes and Ribbon commands you want to record in the
macro.
To record the BoldItalic macro, for example, press Ctrl+B and then
press Ctrl+I.
9. If you have to stop recording temporarily, click the Pause button.
Click it again to resume recording.
You might forget how to do something, for example, especially if you
skipped Step 2. If you click the Pause button, you can call up Word’s
Help command, look up the procedure for whatever it is you forgot,
dismiss Help, and click the Pause button again to resume recording.
10. After you finish recording the macro, click the Stop button.
Word adds the macro to the template or document. You’re almost done.
11. Test the macro.
If you assigned the macro to a keyboard shortcut, use the shortcut now
to see whether the macro works. Otherwise, follow the steps in the later
section, “Running a Macro.”
12. You’re finished.
Congratulate yourself.
If the function of the macro isn’t obvious from the macro name, type a
more elaborate description of the macro in the Record Macro dialog box’s
Description field. You’ll thank yourself later when you forget what the macro
does.
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