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Creating a macro

Creating a macro - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Creating a macro

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If you've ever been working in one of your Word documents, maybe entering text, or formatting a certain way, and realized you've done this before, and you're probably going to do it again in future documents, you might want to consider recording those steps in a macro. That way you can simply play it back when you need it. That's what we're going to do with our NO Home Recipes1 document here. We'll scroll down to the second page. You'll notice we've started a customer letter here. All we haven't done is to close it off at the end, and maybe we close our customer letters the same way. Well if we do, we can then create a button, or a keyboard shortcut that will automatically close off our letters for us, so we'll never have to repeat these steps again. Alright, so let's just click at the end of the last sentence of the last paragraph here, and this is where we want to start recording. To do that, we go to the View tab. At the very end of the ribbon, click the Macros dropdown. Here we…

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