

Once you have completed the letterhead information, place your cursor at the end of the text and click the Page Layout tab in Office 2013 or Layout tab in Office 2016.Ex: OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 1101 Camden Avenue Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 41 1-88 TTY 41 FAX 41.When you record your macro make sure that the following is included in your letterhead. To Stop Recording, you will need to click on macro again and click Stop Recording. The combination is automatically placed in the Press new shortcut key field.Īfter you choose Close, the recording of the macro immediately begins. On your keyboard, press the ALT key and the letter L at the same time. For this macro, since we’re creating a letterhead, we’ll use Alt-L. The Customize Keyboard dialog box appears as shown above.This provides quick access to your macro. To assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut click on Keyboard.Add a Description if you would like, this is helpful if you are creating a lot of macros and need to keep everything organized.Under Store macro in: make sure that All Documents (Normal.dot) or Global Template is selected.( Spaces are not allowed use an underscore to indicate spacing). Type a name for your macro, such as Letterhead.The Record Macro dialog box is displayed as shown below. From the View Tab, choose Macros and Record Macro.You want to assign your macro to all documents. The following is an example of how to create a macro for your customized letterhead paper.

Once you start recording your macro, a toolbar pops up with standard stop and pause buttons. Macros are created with a recording device similar to a common tape recorder. You can even create a macro that automatically places certain text in a document with as many attributes as you’d like! A macro can be created for virtually any task that you perform in Word.

This guide covers how to create a letterhead macro in Microsoft Word for Office 2016/2019.
