Category Archives: Macros

If you record macros to help automate your editing, you’ve probably bumped into a seemingly insurmountable problem: You can get a macro to find something, and then do something, but not more than once. For example, let’s say you want a macro to do this: 1. Find text formatted with the Heading 1 paragraph style. […]

Last week I explained how to create your own toolbars in Microsoft Word. You can create your own menus, too, as a place to activate macros or Word commands. Here’s how: In Word 97 or later: 1. Click the “Tools” menu. 2. Click “Customize.” 3. Click the “Commands” tab. 4. In the “Categories” box (on […]

A few weeks ago, we talked about how to create toolbar buttons to activate your macros, but the fact is, you can create your own toolbars as well. Then you’re not stuck with the toolbars that come with Microsoft Word. Here’s how: In Word 97 or later: 1. Click the “Tools” menu. 2. Click “Customize.” […]

In our last newsletter, we talked about putting macros on toolbar buttons, but you may prefer putting them on menus instead. Here’s how: In Word 6 or 95: 1. Click the “Tools” menu. 2. Click “Customize.” 3. Click the “Menus” tab. 4. In the “Categories” list, on the left, find and click “Macros.” 5. In […]

If you’ve been recording your own macros (as explained in past issues of Editorium Update), you may be interested in putting them on toolbar buttons for easy access. Here’s how: 1. Make sure the toolbar you want to use is showing. (You may need to click the “View” menu, click “Toolbars,” and then put a […]

If you’ve been recording your own macros, as explained in our past several newsletters, you’ve probably been saving them in your Normal template, where they’ll be available to use with any document. The Normal template may not be the best place to save them, however. Since it’s used a lot, it can become corrupt. (You […]

In upcoming issues of Editorium Update, I’ll explain how to run macros by adding your own toolbar buttons, menu items, and keyboard combinations to Microsoft Word. If you want to get a head start, however, be sure to read today’s Readers Write column, where subscriber David M Varner explains the importance of using keyboard combinations […]

Over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about recording macros to automate repetitive tasks in Microsoft Word. You can read the newsletters here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1706651129 http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1706748016 http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1706832239 What you may not know is that there are lots of “prerecorded” macros that will do all kinds of neat things. For example, subscribers to the Word-PC email […]

[Editor’s note: This week’s article is the third in our series on macros, and I’m honored to have written it with Dan A. Wilson, proprietor of The Editor’s DeskTop (http://www.editorsdesktop.com/). The example in the article is intentionally contrived. It’s a nightmare task of repetitive processes. And it’s long. But it’s designed to teach you some […]