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Hi

First of all start your Microsoft oce word processor and follow the following steps:

1. You need to make sure the developer tab is displayed

•  he initial page is like this

!. go to the ribbon and click it

". click on word options

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#ord options button

$. the following windows appears% check the &show developer tab' that is under

popular and click ok

(opular tab show developer tab option )check this one*

+click on the developer tab option that now appears on the menu bar

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+click on record macro button

,eveloper tab record macro button

-. the following screen appears % click on button so that the macro should

appear as a uick button on the access uick toolbar

/. the following screen appears now click on the macro name you are creating

and then click add0: do not click or add the &separator'

utton

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2. now you can start performing the actions you want your macro to do for e.g

we will create a macro that will do the following:

• create a new document

• change the font and font si3e

• insert a date

1. click the ribbon and click on new then click on blank document and then

press create

!. note a new window document appears.

4lick ok

5ddbutton

 Your

macro

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". type some te6t and change the font and font si3e to a desired one

$. insert date : click on insert tab and go to date and time

Font

Font

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-. 5 date and time window appears 4hose a desired date format and then

click ok 

/. he date is inserted in the document

,ate and

time button

ok button

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2. 0ow that we have done all that we want our macro to be doing % we need

to stop recording our macro. 7o to the developers tab and click on stop

recording

8top recording button

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9. 0ow click on that macro button you ust created under the uick access

toolbar

;. #hat happens< =n some programs this will work perfectly >ne but in

some this may not be the case :

•  Your macro will display everything you recorded in the current

document

• 5fter you close every other document% try opening the word

processor again and try running your macro again .one of thesethree happens1. Your macro will run correctly!. Your micro might also produce this error

& the reuested member of the collection does not e6ist' his happens because in the code of your macro a certain line

tells the macro to only apply the changes that the macro

recorded in the document it was recorded thus if you recorded

your macro whilst the document name was &document!' the

macro will not run correctly in other documents.

What you need to do 4lick on the debug button

?uick access

toolbar

 Your macro

button

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 he following screen appears

 You will notice a line highlighted in yellow

,elete that line and the above line that says

&windows )document !*:activate'

 he code should at least look like this

,ebu button

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4lose the debugging window

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0ow run your micro again. =t should work perfectly >ne

now .

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=f you have any uestions or clari>cations you know what to do .

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