If you have made macro applied to all documents, now you can run the macro and apply it to other documents in Word 2010. Now a macro for Word 2010 document has been successfully created. Step 5: After you have done what you want to record, click Stop Recording. The macro being recorded can be easily stopped or paused with them. Tips: If you have chosen “Button” in Step 2 “Assign Macro to” section, now click View, and point to Macros down arrow, you can see Stop Recording and Pause Recording options. Step 4: When you return to your Word document, you would find your mouse pointer becomes different. Step 3: Click OK in Record Macro dialog to begin recording a macro. So if there is something you cannot describe macro in other parts, write them in this part.

In Description part, you are free to set anything you like. While you choose MS Word (document), it will be only used in this Word document. When you choose All Documents (Normal.dotm), the macro you are going to record will be available to all the new Word documents created in future. Store macro in points out which Word document the macro will apply to. In the section Assign Macro to, you can give the choice either Button or Keyboard for the way to record and run macro. For example, if you want to create a macro to change text font in Word document, you can name it FontChange. So we should call our macro a specified name, which can clearly show what the macro can do. But it is not descriptive for what we want our macro to do. Macro name is set Macro1 or Macro2 etc by default. The first thing is to give your new Macro a name. There are four areas in the Record Macro dialog box, Macro name, Assign Macro to, Store Macro in and Description. Step 2: When you click on Record Macro, you get the Record Macro dialog box popping up. How to create a Macro in Word 2010 Step 1: Click View in Microsoft Word 2010 menu, and click Macros > Record Macro in Quick Access Toolbar. Now let’s see how we are going to create a simple Word 2010 macro.

Then we can run the macro by clicking a button or pressing a combination of keys. So first we need to record or create the macro. It saves time on tasks you do often, but it asks for bundling the steps into a macro. A macro is a shortcut to something you do a lot.

Word 2010 macro shortcut keys