Free book: Macros for Writers and Editors

Macros for Writers and Editors is a free book (over 500 pages), which you can download (updated 22 February 2012 – size: 454 kbytes). It contains over 350 macros that will help with a range of different tasks around writing and editing using Microsoft Word.

(If you are already using some of the macros and want to know if any given macro has been updated recently, a dated list of all the macros is available here.)

With the computer’s help, you can have …

greater accuracy

Computers are good making repetitive changes – they don’t get bored and tired and then miss things.

greater speed

Not only can they speed up the repetitive jobs, but while you are reading, you can use them to make small changes so that you can maintain your focus on the meaning of the text.

more enjoyment

If the computer is doing the boring bits, you can enjoy the challenge of engaging with the text, improving the way the ideas are communicated and just reading an interesting book!

For greater benefit from all these macros, we offer training for large or small groups, from the level of ‘What is a macro?!’, right up to macro power-users.

NB Mac users: If you are using the Mac-only 2008 version of Word, you're out of luck, I'm afraid, because it does not include Visual Basic, the macro language. Mac users can use the macros, provided they have Word 2004 or 2011.