Word 2013 on Demand

Understanding How Macros Automate Your Work

To complete many tasks in Word, you need to execute a series of commands and actions. To print two copies of a selected text in a document, for example, you need to open the document, select the text, open the Print dialog box, and specify that you want to print two copies. If you often need to complete the same task, you’ll find yourself repeatedly taking the same series of steps. It can be tiresome to continually repeat the same commands and actions when you can easily create a mini-program, or macro, that accomplishes all of them with a single command.

Creating a macro is easy and requires no programming knowledge on your part. Word simply records the steps you want included in the macro while you ...