Recording your own macrosIn the previous post, I promised that I would show you how to record your own macro. In Word, macros are accessed via the Developer tab (which isn't always visible if you haven't visited 'Customize Ribbon' in Word options and ticked the box to add it to your ribbon) or the View tab, which you can find here: Click on Record Macro to get a pop-up box which looks like this: This box allows you to name your macro, assign it to a button on the quick-access toolbar and/or to give it a keyboard shortcut.* Feel free to play with all these options, but you can access them all later once you have got your macro working so you can ignore them for now. When you click on ‘OK’ you will be recording your macro. This means that Word will record every keystroke and click you make in the macro so you need to plan what you are going to do! Once you have a plan, click ‘OK’ and start recording your macro. Your mouse pointer will change to an arrow with a cassette tape to remind you that you are recording. When you have finished, press ‘Stop recording’ (located in the same place as ‘Record macro’). If you need the macro to select any text, you need to make the selection using the keyboard as Word doesn’t register text selected using the mouse. Here are the instructions for the two little macros I mentioned in part i of this post, just to give you some examples. Convert text to small caps
Change ‘asthma patients’ to ‘patients with asthma’:
how to run your new macroTo run your macro, go back to the macros menu, and click on ‘View Macros’. Select your macro (if this is the first macro you have recorded or installed, it will be called ‘Macro1’**). Click on Run.
*This box also asks you where you want to store your macro: if you choose the default option of ‘All Documents (Normal.dotm)’ you will be able to use your macro every time you use Word. You can add a description of your macro in the space at the bottom to remind you of what it does (but, again, you can sort this out later). **Once you are more confident and are recording macros you plan to keep and use in your editing, you do need to name each macro (no spaces allowed!) and give it a description so that you remember what it does. You don't need a macro list that looks like this:
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