Problems with Macros in MSW2010 vs 2003

[Mark Calamus]

Hi I am having difficulty recording a new macro to do the same task as I did happily in MSW2003. I do a lot of formatting of text and used a number of macros to achieve common tasks. I upgraded (finally!) to MSO2010 but lost all my macros and when recording new ones they simply don't do the actions I recorded.

For example one macro I use a lot is to search for a name, say John Smith, select and cut that name, move it up a couple of lines and paste it next to his picture, move down and select the next line (a date & time) and then do the same to that as to the name thus making one line of pic, name, date. Then to move down again and select that line to the end and change the colour of the text and make it italic.

I have a bunch of peoples data that I reformat in this way and it was very easy to do so under MSW2003. Record the actions, associate it with a button and save it (into Normal.dot) and off I go.

Under MSO2010 the macro doesn't seem to use the search function properly and randomly deletes and changes incorrect parts removing pictures and characters. Most annoying! I have tried it a dozen times and it hasn't functioned correctly once! I'm thinking it might be the search part that is the problem but I cannot figure out how to do a basic field search on MSW2010. Under MSW2003 I just used CTRL-F and searched for the next instance of John Smith. Under MSW2010 it tries to be very clever and give me lots of choices I just don't want!


Apologies for the length of this question - I am trying to give as much detail as possible.

Thanks in advance
Mark