But first, you may want to see an example. If you’re a programmer, you can also write more complex instructions to be executed as a macro. Once recording is done, go back to View > Macro > Stop Recording to end the recording. This name will identify the macro for running it.

When you choose to record a macro, MS Word will ask you to give the macro a name. Clicking on this will give you option to Record Macro. To record a macro, open the MS Word document and go to View menu. If macro recording is going to be long, it is advisable that you practice the steps to perfect them before beginning the recording. That is why you it is better to decide what exactly you want to record. When you will run this macro, you’ll get all the desired result but macro will also go through step 4 and 5… that is to say that the macro will make the same mistake as you did and then it will correct the mistake just the way you did.ĭid you get the point? Once you start recording a macro, ALL of your actions are recorded irrespective of whether they are wrong or right.

You can not remove step 4 and 5 from the macro recording. You again select the text (by pressing CTRL + A).Make all the selected text orange (OOPS! But, you wanted to make it blue!).Make all the selected text italic (by pressing CTRL + I).Select all text in the document (by pressing CTRL + A).Open a document and begin recording a macro.Before you begin recording of a macro, I would suggest that you become very sure what you want to do and how you want to do because every action of your will be recorded in macro. MS Word (and all other software in MS Office package) allow you to record your actions and then execute them as a single command.

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