I'm relatively new to the forum, although I got some help here years ago with getting rid of extra carriage returns with a great macro (that still works, BTW), so perhaps these should have been posted as separate threads, but they seem related, at least to me. Be patient and consider me a "newby" even though I've been using MSW for many years.

Three issues:
1. All of my recorded macros (perhaps only 15 or 20 of them) seem to “’go away” when I reload or save (or both) the document I’m working on.. What I’d like to do is store my recorded macros in a different template and have it load every time I start MS Word.

What I’m currently doing is when I find the macro list blank and sigh angrily, I go to a copied text version of the VBA file with all the macros in it, copy it, and paste it into the new file (I guess it’s really getting saved in the normal.dotm file) and for the remainder of the session I can still access all my macros.

2. Several (not all) of my recorded macros are much more useful to me if they are assigned keys to execute with a single key (or combination). Even after reloading my macros, the previously made customizations are gone, and I have to make these customizations again. I’ve tried the “save customizations” button that exists when I first do “customize the ribbon” to no avail.

3. A very simple key sequence that I would like to record as a macro is the following:

Alt FàFile
T àOptions
Cursor down toàProofing
Tab to Auto correct options
[enter} to Auto Correct options “list box”


And STOP here (I just want a quick way to get to this list to enter new auto correct options)

As I've said, all I want is to have a macro that will get me to that screen and StOP, allowing me to input text at that point