To begin with, you need to give Word permission to enable macros. You need to adjust some settings in Word before that can happen. Word doesn’t automatically allow macros to work their magic with a fresh install. If you’re a Mac user, see this tutorial for enabling macros in Word 2011. Some macros can help you to see things in your writing that you wouldn’t otherwise see. *Macros are tiny programs that can make writing and editing tasks more efficient and accurate. Improved versions of FRedit, HyphenAlyse, DocAlyse, ProperNounAlyse, SpellingToolkit, WordPairAlyse, etc.If you have a fresh install of Word, you may have trouble adding or running macros*.
For running macros that use lots of computer time, do try the macro out first with a more modest-sized document – a few thousand words – and not on your magnum opus 150,000-word book. More importantly, you will be able to see the prompts that the macro puts on the status bar down at the bottom of the window to show its progress. I won’t say that “Not responding" will be a thing of the past, but if you use the latest (8 November or later) versions of my macros you’ll still be able to see onscreen that something is still going on. I’ve discovered a new (to me) command (DoEvents) that I can put in my programs it makes the macro stop for a fraction of a second and this allows the computer to update the screen. Take the dog for a walk.īut there’s some good news, especially for users of my macros. This can then cause Word to crash altogether.
Definitely don’t do that! By clicking on the screen you’re trying to force Word to update the screen display, and that takes up even more processor time. The user’s natural response at this point is to click on the screen – just to check if Word is still working. Actually, the macro hasn’t stopped working it’s just that the macro is using up so much processing time that the computer’s operating system decides it hasn’t got time to update the screen display – well, not until the macro finishes. When a macro is running, if it’s taking rather a long time (according to Microsoft), Word displays a warning message in the title bar of the window – "Not responding" – and the screen display freezes. do you sometimes see this message at the top of a Word window when it’s running a long macro? If so, you don’t need to panic.
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