If you frequently use the same series of commands, you’ll want to pay attention during this lesson! This is where we talk about macros, which are several commands grouped together. This lets you perform an entire series of actions just by running that macro.

Although you can create a macro using Microsoft’s Visual Basic Editor, in this lesson we’re going to focus on creating a macro using Word’s macro recorder. At the end of the lesson, we will take a quick look at using the Visual Basic Editor to create a macro.