Microsoft Office Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

Appendix B

Microsoft 365 macros

Macros and Office

Understanding macros

Creating a macro

Running macros

Editing recorded macros

Digitally signing macros

The 365 applications provide easy access to commands and features via the ribbon, which is the standard command-and-control tool for the productivity software suite. File management and print commands (as well as access to an application’s options settings) have been nested in the Backstage. Although it might seem that getting things done in your Office applications does not require anything other than the standard commands and features, you might find an occasion when you want to have more control over a process. You might want to automate a particular series of commands by recording a macro. ...