Avoid repeated: create a Word macro

Repeated input of the same information in the document after document, always and always... There must be a quicker way, right? You can save Word macros time (and possibly some reason) by to automate repetitive tasks.

Suppose you are a real estate agent. Every time, when you sell a home, you need name and address of the customer, the documents added. Create a macro to automate addition of all contact information of the customer, where whatever you need.

Creating a macro is straightforward and does not require programming skills. You simply say Word when you start and stop recording a series of steps; Type, for example, from at the start a client name, when you are finished. Then Word will all these steps automatically when you click a button or enter a shortcut key, you the macro assigned to the.

Here is a step by step:

1. Go to the view click the macros tab drop - down-list and select record macro.

In the dialog box to record a macro , you're going to call and describe your macro, and then select whether you want to run it on a key or key combination.

2. In the macro name box  dialog box, type your macro a name that contains no spaces, e.g., AdamSmith instead of Adam Smith.

3. The ' Description ' field is for you. In the course of time, you can create dozens of macros and anger might remember what is what. Give a description of you, out helps.

4. In the box store macro in determine whether the macro is running in the current document or all documents. Select the option--to run in all documentsall documents-.

5. Choose, whether you use a link or button, the macro run, by clicking on the button or keyboard symbols. For this exercise, click.

After you click,you can word your button to place add light-the toolbar for quick accessyou can find.

1. In the field of Word options/Quick Access toolbar , click the name of the macro, and click Add to include it on the list of the other commands on the Quick Access toolbar.

 

To ensure that you can identify the button on the toolbar, select a button.

2. Click on the change, and then select a button from the dozens available.

Once you select your button and click on OK, starts the macro is running, that record your keystrokes until you stop recording. For example, I chose the button of a man, wearing a tie, you click on OK, and the macro started, lived in Lincoln, entered Nebraska recording a fictitious client named Adam Smith's address. As I finished typing, I clicked stop recording the macro - drop-down list.

Here is how you can do:

1. Inthe dialog box changebutton , select a button, and then click OK.

2. Click OK again in the Word Options and starts to macros.

3. Lead the actions that you want to include in your macro.

4. Once you have performed the actions, gomacro tab on the viewtab, and then click stop recording.

5. You now see that the macro button appears on the toolbar for quick access. Just click and the same actions that you recorded to happen again, where to put the cursor in a document. They see this button on the toolbar for quick access in all Word documents if you have chosen that they once displayed only in your old.

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