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Building Blocks and Macros in Word

Building Blocks and Macros in Word

with Mariann Siegert

 


Streamline your workflows and cut time spent on document creation by taking advantage of building blocks and macros in Microsoft Word. Author Mariann Siegert illustrates how to create, store, and effortlessly reuse pieces of document information such as boilerplate text, graphics, tables, shapes, fields, and content controls. The course also explains how to record macros to capture the steps in your workflow and run them with a single click. The course includes five real-world projects and introduces Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the language on which Word macros are based.
Topics include:
  • Using built-in and custom building blocks
  • Adding power utilizing building block content controls
  • Using building blocks and macros together
  • Recording, playing, and pausing macros
  • Saving macro-enabled documents and templates
  • Employing macros and field codes together
  • Assigning keyboard shortcuts and buttons to macros
  • Editing and combining macros
  • Getting started with VBA code

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author
Mariann Siegert
subject
Business, Productivity, Word Processing
software
Word 2007, 2010
level
Intermediate
duration
2h 23m
released
Apr 18, 2012

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