There are numerous on-line tutorials for recording & writing macros. Utlimately, it's a bit like learning another language, and there's nothing like writing them to develop your skills. Almost vof of my vba ability has been learnt from studying the code other have posted on forums like this one and by writing/adapting such code to help people like yourself. Like you, I'm retired and have no personal need for such things in my day-to-day life.

A book that might help you is:
The Secret Life of Word: A Professional Writer's Guide to Microsoft Word Automation, by Robert Delwood
I provided some of the content for that book, and did a fair bit of the technical review before it was published.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]