The True Meaning of Macros Bella Vista AR

Posted by : Dennis Sellers

If you're using Word 2001 for the Mac--and, believe me, it's certainly worth checking out if your work involves heavy-duty word processing--you may want to take advantage of the application's support for macros to save yourself some time. Macros are a series of effects or enhancements that can be applied with one click of the mouse. In talking about Word, macros are commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to accomplish a task automatically.

In fact, if you don't take advantage of Word's automation and macro features, you're depriving yourself of some real customizing enhancements and time savers. Macros can do things such as enter blocks of text automatically, assign font styles (bold, italic, etc.), or format a paper.

For instance, if you write lots of letters you can record a macro that, with the push of a button, automatically inserts your address. If you regularly write reports that have the same format, but different text, you can record a macro to do the formatting for you. Macros can be used to combine multiple commands (such as inserting a table with a specific size and borders, and with a specific number of rows and columns), making a dialog box option more accessible, and automatically running a series of tasks.

Macros are programmed in Word 2001 (and for that matter, in all of the Office 2001's components) with the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting language. While you can use...

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