Macro's

Dear David

Thank you for attending PowerPoint Inter/Adv course!! I hope you enjoyed the course and benefited from it.


Macros are a way to automate repetitive tasks that you end up doing every time. You can create macros for anything. I suggest that you create Macros for group of related actions.


Some examples of macros in PowerPoint can be that every time you insert a picture you need to set the picture to a specific size, alignment, etc... Or you may be doing lots of formatting which needs to be done to the text or may be prforming page setup actions such as Margins, Landsacpe, portrait etc...

To perform Macros please follow these steps:


1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Record New Macro.

2. In the Macro name box, enter a name for the macro (macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.).

Note The first character of the macro name must be a letter. Other characters can be letters, numbers, or underscore characters. Spaces are not allowed in a macro name; an underscore character works well as a word separator.

3. In the Store macro in box, click the location where you want to store the macro.

4. If you want to include a description of the macro, type it in the Description box.

5. Click OK.

6. Record the actions you want for the macro, and then on the Stop Recording toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Stop Recording Button image.

I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007
MCT