Re: Creating Macros in MSWord 2007

  • From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:01:06 -0600

Go to Word's help menu. What follows is an edited version of what you'll find

Show the Developer tab
1. Click the Microsoft Office Button 
, and then click Word Options.
2. Click Popular.
3. Under Top options for working with Word, select the Show Developer tab in 
the Ribbon check box.

Use the macro recorder
list of 7 items
1. On the Developer tab, in the Code group, click Record Macro.
2. In the Macro name box, type a name for the macro. Note    If you give a new 
macro the same name as a built-in macro in Office Word 2007, the new macro
actions will replace the built-in macro. To view a list of built-in macros, on 
the Developer tab, in the Code group, click Macros. In the Macros in list,
click Word Commands.

3. In the Store macro in box, click the 
template (template: A file or files that contain the structure and tools for 
shaping such elements as the style and page layout of finished files. For 
example,
Word templates can shape a single document, and FrontPage templates can shape 
an entire Web site.)
 or document in which you want to store the macro.
4. In the Description box, type a description of the macro.
5. Do one of the following:
. To begin recording the macro without assigning it to a button on the Quick 
Access Toolbar or to a shortcut key, click OK.
. To assign the macro to the Quick Access Toolbar, do the following:
list of 4 items nesting level 2
1. Click Button.
2. Under Customize Quick Access Toolbar, select the document (or all documents) 
for which you want to add the macro to the Quick Access Toolbar.
3. Under Choose commands from dialog box, click the macro that you are 
recording, and then click Add.
4. Click OK to begin recording the macro.
. To assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut, do the following:
1. Click Keyboard.
2. In the Commands box, click the macro that you are recording.
3. In the Press new shortcut key box, type the key sequence that you want, and 
then click Assign.
4. Click Close to begin recording the macro.
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: White Samuel L 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 2:09 PM
  Subject: Creating Macros in MSWord 2007


  I need to find out how to create macros in MS Word 2007.  I know how to do so 
in MS Word 2003.  But I can not find out where Macros are located in MS Word 
2007.
  Can any one help me.
  sam

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