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October 8th, 2004 16:00
Macro Buttons in Word 2002
I have managed to create my first macro and am waiting for a few books on the subject. Meanwhile, I am trying to figure out if there is a good way to store macros in buttons or even drop-down boxes on a tool bar, so I don't have to remember a bunchk of special keys but without taking up a lot of space on the toolboar. I stored this simple macro (PasteSpecial--to facilitate cutting and pasting using unformatted text) as a button but the button itself is pretty huge and has a long name: "Normal.newMacros.PasteSpecial." Any suggestions?
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October 8th, 2004 18:00
To change your button, right click anywhere on any toolbar. When the dropdown menu appears, choose "Customize" (way down at the bottom). The Customize dialog box will come up, but don't pay any attention to it. Right-click on your macro's button and choose "Default Style." That should change the button to stop displaying the name of the macro and leave the default smiley face icon. You can change the icon image to something more meaningful than a smiley face by clicking on "Change Button Image" (great way to eat up a morning at work). If you look under the Command tab of the Customizer dialog, there are a ton of useful buttons for doing things that require multiple menus or clicks. Unfortunately, Microsoft won't let you edit their built-in button images, so you're stuck with whatever some pasty-face cubicle-dweller in Redmond has decided is meaningful.
-knoxtenor