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- [Instructor] If we jumped in the Wayback Machine and took a look at Word 2000 or Word '97, we'd find ourselves creating more macros to do basic document formatting. If we wanted, for example, to have a section of text that we wanted to format as a title, we might create a macro that would change the color of our text, and then increase its size, and perhaps bold or add some other effect, and we would need to do that for the earliest versions of Word, because there wasn't such a thing as a style. Now, when we want to format a title in a document, we simply choose a title style, and that includes a combination of our font size, our font's alignment, the specific font that's being used, and whether or not it's bold or italicized and so on. In other words, we don't need to create that formatting macro anymore. Instead, we can use a style or create a new style that's exactly the formatting that we want to use. Another example of a past macro practice that we simply don't need to engage…

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