Word Annoyances

158 CHAP TE R 8 AU TOMATE AWAY ANNOYANCES WIT H MACR O S

ADMINISTERING MACROS

Move a Macro from One Template

to Another

The Annoyance: I reckon I’ve more or less gotten the hang

of the Visual Basic Editor by now—at least, I can create and

edit macros in different projects. But do you mean to tell me

that I need to use Cut and Paste to move a macro from one

project to another?

The Fix: You’ve hit upon one of the Visual Basic Editor’s

most dramatic shortcomings: the inability to copy or move a

macro quickly from one project (a template or document) to

another. But Word itself can take care of this task: choose

Tools → Macro → Macros, click the Organizer button in the

Macros dialog box, and then click the Macro Project Items

tab. See which projects are open in the two “Macro Project

Items available in” boxes; if necessary, click the Close File

button to close one of the open projects, and then use the

resulting Open File button to open the relevant project. With

the projects open, select the item you want to copy, and click

the Copy button. To move an item, copy it to the new location

and then click the Delete button to delete it from the source

project.

When you’ve finished copying or moving items, click the

Close button to close the Organizer dialog box, and save the

documents or templates with which you’ve been working.

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