Microsoft word macro recorder6/11/2023 Typical uses for macros include speeding up routine editing and formatting, combining multiple commands, and automating a complex series of tasks. In Microsoft Word, a macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to accomplish a task automatically. Cleaning up other people’s text can be a tedious process, but by creating macros that run through the various Find/Replace routines and dialog boxes necessary for the clean up, you can dramatically speed up the time this takes. As a book designer and typesetter, I spend most of my time wrangling with other people’s words, and I find this easier to do in Word than InDesign. In my article, Moving Text from Word to InDesign, I wrote about creating macros in Microsoft Word, which can run a multitude of repetitive tasks with the click of a button.
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