This chapter introduces the tools you need to create macros: the macro recorder and the macro-editing window. The macro recorder provides an easy way to record simple, "playback" macros and to start building more complex ones. The macro-editing window is a window with special capabilities for writing, editing, and testing macros in the Word macro language, WordBasic. This chapter includes a series of practices in which you record and then edit a very simple macro that applies bold and italic formatting.
The chapter goes on to discuss the relationship between macros and templates and how to store macros. Finally, the last two sections discuss modifying Word commands and creating "auto" macros that run automatically in response to such actions as creating a new document.
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