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Finding and running a macro

Finding and running a macro - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Finding and running a macro

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Once you've recorded your macros, it's a simple matter of playing them back every time you need them. The steps you recorded will be replayed at the location in your document where your cursor is flashing. So for us, we've recorded a letter closing, and we see that letter closing that we created on the fly while we were recording our macro. Let's test it out by removing this closing. We'll click and drag from the end of the last sentence here, which is our no-obstacles-inc Web site. We'll drag all of the down to the end of CEO, and hit Delete on the keyboard to remove that. So here we are, we've typed our customer letter, we're ready to close it off now, but we have a macro to do that. We put our on the quick access toolbar, so it's just a matter of going up and clicking the button. Now, eventually you may have many of these macros on your quick access toolbar, and the icons will all look the same, so as you hover over it, you'll notice you get to see the name of the macro. This is…

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