What Is a Macro?

Stop and think for a minute—how much of your time is spent doing repetitive tasks? Do you create the same types of documents every week? Do you type the same address block all day long? Do you repeat the same series of steps over and over again, setting up formatting for your documents? Are you responsible for maintaining a consistent appearance in company documents? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you will love the Macro feature.

A macro can be created to perform a series of steps. Those steps might take you several minutes to complete manually, but when you play the macro, the process takes only seconds. And equally important, every time you play the macro, the exact same steps are done. This means that the ...

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