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 need.

Click Macros in the Code group. A Macro dialog box will open. In the dialog box, you can choose the format you want to run the macro. In this tutorial, we choose to run the macro in All open ...

Office macros are able to do too much. I was the one with a proof-of-concept MS Word 2.0 macro, showing how saving a document as a template, with an auto-run startup macro, could lock up a computer.

Macros in Microsoft Office are blocked for security reasons, but you can enable and use signed macros. This tutorial explains how to create a self-signed digital certificate.

Microsoft plans to block by default VBA macros obtained from the internet in Office on devices running Windows. This will impact Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word, according to a February ...