Visual Basic for Word Macros Seminar

This 1-day  in-depth Visual Basic for Word Macros seminar is designed to give you the tools for creating macros that can automate and speed up mundane, repetative tasks. Understanding the essentials of Visual Basic as used in creating Word macros can lead to increasing your working accuracy and efficiency, and help to standardize the look of your documents. Learn the power of VB to create efficient macro to make sophisticated, repetitive changes at the click of a button.

COST: $250  plus VAT (10 % discount for freelancers and former WritePoint students).

Catered (kosher/mehadrin) dairy lunch included.

Purpose of macro automation

• Recording and modifying recorded macros
• Cursor movement and text manipulation
• Applying styles via a macro
• Use of the VBA environment including interactive debugging and its associated features
• Customizing the Find/Replace statements
• With Statement
• Conditional statements - If-Then-Else, Select-Case
• Use of loops - For=Next, While-Wend
• Use of OOP (Object Orientated Programming) in VBA
• Creating automatic headers and footers - AutoText, Document Properties, fields
• Attaching macros to toolbars and to shortcut keys
• Useful tools for the VBA programmer, such as how to assign names to toolbar icons