Re: A very visually basic question

First, don't use macros for repeating text. Its the wrong tool. Use AutoText
or AutoCorrect.

It sounds like you saved your template with the text showing. When you
create a new document based on a template, it will show whatever text is in
the template.

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/VBABasicsIn15Mins.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoCorrect.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm

For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

I suspect that you have moved from Word Perfect, where macros are used to
repeat text. If so and if you would like some suggestions on making Word
easier to use, reply back.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Wallace" <wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I want to put a macro in a template I have (Word 2003). I open the template
and go to Tools>Macros>Record Macro. I assign the macro a name and tell
Word
I want to store it in this template. Then I record the macro. I save and
close the template.

I open a new document from that template and sure enough, there's the text
of my macro, just as I typed it. It doesn't do anything - it just sits
there
in the template, for all the world to see.

What (or should I say how many things) have I done wrong?

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Wallace


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