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2/3/2021

How to edit a macro

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In Macro baby steps part ii – Recording your own macros, I mentioned that macros can be edited. In fact, being able to edit macros is one of the great things about them, so it’s quite useful to understand enough about how macros work to have the confidence to tweak your own macros – and other people’s.

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16/2/2021

Macro baby steps series

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Here are the links to the posts in the series:

​Macro baby steps part i​
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Macro baby steps part i​i
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Macro baby steps part i​ii


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12/2/2021

Macro baby steps part iii

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How to use your macros without really noticing you're using macros

This is the third of a series of posts for people who would like to use macros, but who find the mere thought extremely daunting. In Macro baby steps part i, I recommended a few simple macros to start your macro journey with, and in Macro baby steps part ii I talk you through recording your own macros.

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12/2/2021

Word: How to add a macro to the Quick Access Toolbar

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In the What is the Quick Access Toolbar post, I described how to add a Word command to your Quick Access Toolbar. Here, I explain how to add a macro to the Quick Access Toolbar as there are a couple of extra steps that you need to do.

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8/2/2021

Word: How to set up a keyboard shortcut

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Word comes with a few pre-assigned keyboard shortcuts: most of us are familiar with saving using CTRL+S, cutting with CTRL+X, and pasting with CTRL+V – and we wouldn’t be without CTRL+Z to undo our typos! Word also allows you to assign your own keyboard shortcuts for Word commands, macros, symbols and styles, among other things ​…

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1/2/2021

Word: What is the Quick Access Toolbar?

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The Quick Access Toolbar is a handy place to keep your most frequently used Word features. It's a feature of all Microsoft Office products, but it's not something that I have made use of in anything other than Word.
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If you haven’t added anything to your Quick Access Toolbar, you will probably find it on top of your ribbon looking something like this:

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12/1/2021

Word: How to install a macro

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There are (at least) a couple of ways to install a macro. I will talk you through what is probably the most straightforward method later in this post, but first let us look at what a macro looks like inside Word’s Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) editor. (I'm going to skip the 'for Applications' bit for simplicity.)

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12/1/2021

Word: Where is the developer tab?

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​The Developer tab doesn't always appear automatically when you install Word. You might find that your Word ribbon might look like this: 
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    Andrea at Yours Truleigh Editing
    I'm an editor based on the south coast of the United Kingdom. I try and use the tools at my disposal to make the process of editing as effiicient and accurate as possible and I'm hoping to share some tips and techniques that I've picked up along the way. I'm an enthusiastic and grateful member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. Editorial freelancers benefit hugely from being part of supportive organisations:  for direct support for our work, such as training and providing routes for our clients to find us, but also for community, which is needed now more than ever. 
    Please note: all Word tips are based on Word 365 for PC. 

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