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Create a macro in the Visual Basic Editor

Create a macro in the Visual Basic Editor - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Create a macro in the Visual Basic Editor

- [Instructor] We've used the macro recorder to create every macro we've created so far. There's another way you can create macros and that's using the Visual Basic editor. You can either begin by typing text using the editor itself, or you can copy and paste macros that you might find in online guides or elsewhere. The reason that I would create a macro in the editor rather than recording it is I need to do something that can't be recorded. Let me show you the closest version of what I could record and that is with highlighting turned on I would like to highlight the term smartart every time it appears in the document. I'm going to Replace All and notice, there are two of them, and they are both bright green. And that's just fine. And I'm going to undo that. However, I'd like to look for more than one term. I have a whole list of terms that I want to look for and the business uses for this are legion. For example, you might be going through a document to find cliches that are…

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