

When school begins again in January, unless there are some answers, I will be using Word 2011 for the next 6 months. I do not look forward to the tedium that may be coming. If I had to pay for this software, I wouldīe feeling worse than I do.

#Word 2016 for mac create macro license
My school pays for a campus license for students, faculty, and staff. The only good thing about Office 2016 for Mac so far is that I didn't have to pay for it personally. There who are just as frustrated as I am. I believe there are other Word 2016 for Mac users out Or, if you can point me in the right direction toward resolution, that would be splendid. Plea: Bob, if you can help me overcome the problems described above, I will be very grateful. The truce was signed and we were given back our macros and true macro capability. Finally, they relented at some point-I don't remember when

Why?!! I remember the previous war Microsoft waged on macros and macro users some years ago. It is almost like they haveĭeclared war! on macros and those who really like them. But, instead of friendly backwards compatibility, Microsoft is always leaving us in the lurch when it comes out with a new or revised product. Microsoft's GUI recording and saving functions were (and still are) goodĮnough for me. I know nothing about the VBE, and unless I can learn it in and don't want to know anything. They are probably 40-50 keystroke commands in this template (hence, in all the lectures themselves) that I use all the time along with the embedded macros.Ĭonclusion: I am convinced that Microsoft hates Visual Basic and macros. The majority of the lectures, if not all areīased upon a particular "Lecture" template that I modify from time to time. Most of these documents are lectures, some is research for publication. I have hundreds of documents that I created and that I use all the time in my work. Question: Is there a way to create and preserve macros in Word 2016 created new and saved old documents without fighting the battle I have described above?īackground: I am a college professor. But, if you try opening that template any other way, there will be no macros! Unbelievable! Open the template, and the macros will be there. > Templates (.but, here gives the same result). Library -> Group Containers -> UBF8T346G9.Office -> User Content (I tried placing it here.)
#Word 2016 for mac create macro software
Only way you can get your macros that you know are in the document is to go the the pull-down menu at the top of the software frame, select "open" then, unhide or otherwise locate the Library folder and go to: Normal.dotm template, and save it several simple macros- e.g., a macro calling for a certain font or formatting-e.g., bold or italics- those macros cannot be found when called up. And, the next time you open any document built upon your template, will be absolutely devoid of your macros.īut, wait. dotm just once, and all the macros are irretrievably gone. Having to do this every time, day in day out. But, what little help that may be is entirely eclipsed by the frustration you harbor at Yes, the program does warn you that if you continue to save, your macros will be removed. dotx file, all your macros will be removed from the template. If you are not careful and happen to save the template as a But, as soon as you close it up and open up a new document or an existing document, that you know had macros embedde d Normal.dotm-you are able to save your macros in the template. If you create a Normal macro-enabled template-naming it Word 2016 does not work like Word 2011 when it comes to creating and saving macros in any of your templates, including the 'Normal' docx file, and your macros will be gone.Ģ. And, if you are not careful to remember, the program automatically saves everything as a regular

If you create a set of simple macros and save them, they must be saved as. Not work like Word 2011 at all when it comes to creating and saving macros in a document. It is possible to create and save macros, but Word 2016 does I experimented yesterday for several hours with macros in Word 2016 and again today.
