Office 2013 In Depth

B. Office Macros

The Office applications provide easy access to commands and features via the Ribbon, the standard command and control tool in Office 2013. 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.

In this appendix, we take a basic look at the process of recording your keystrokes and mouse clicks as part of a macro script. This macro primer includes information ...