Can you teach an 'old dog' new tricks? (Writing Macros)

[Stone Age Trucker]

I'm certainly giving my age away when I say that I started out with Wordstar
for CPM. I then moved on to MS Word, in which I found it very easy to write
macros. Working with DOS was an excellent prep for writing macros. In fact,
after creating a library of macros, you could then write batch files to run
them much like invoking a procedure in a computer program. My programming
skills are as ancient as I myself feel in today's 'pedal-to-the-metal'
technology. In college, I learned the following programming languages:
Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, C, C++, and VAX/PDP-11 Assembly languages.
Also, I worked with Lotus 1-2-3, which pretty much ran on macros. So, all
that to say I have a fairly good grounding in data structures and coding,
though my skills are 'rusty' to say the least.

So, finally, I come to the heart of my problem for which I seek advice.
Before, it was a simple process to record a macro. Activate 'Record Macro'
perform the desired task. "Stop Record'. Today, should you desire to write a
more complex macro, it appears that you need an application/compiler to do so.

Could someone tell me where to begin or where to go and what is needed to
compile the code. Are there any shareware applications available, etc. CAN
you teach an Old Dog new tricks? Thank you.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "Getting To Grips With VBA Basics In 15 Minutes†at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/VBABasicsIn15Mins.htm

and other articles at that the word.mvps.org website/

The "Application/Compiler is built-in to Word so nothing additional is
required
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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com