Instead of clicking on multiple buttons to add different Word and Excel formats, record a macro, add it to Quick Access Toolbar & use it to get things done.

They allow you to automate tasks you do often, by teaching Word to follow your example. You hit Record Macro, you do something — a search and replace, let’s say — and then you can play back ...

You have a long, messy Word document, with a bunch of formats and styles that are just plain wrong. With Word macros, you can fix them all by recording each fix and running them as much as you ...