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Old 10-19-2025, 10:09 PM
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First, many of the best functions in Word cannot be recorded in a macro, but they can be written in a macro. Recorded lengthy macros are generally much more complex than needed. See How to Modify a Recorded Macro by Jay Freedman.




As Paul suggested, try stepping through the recorded macro that Paul provided.
Where Selection is used it generally means that text or an area was selected but it may just mean where the cursor is.


To record a macro, start recording, and create the table you want. Much of the work is done by applying a Table style, in this case "Grid Table 5 Dark - Accent 6."
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First, many of the best functions in Word cannot be recorded in a macro
True, but in this case I was able to record them all - and mostly just with keystrokes. IIRC, the only time I used the mouse was for the table selection, via Table Tools|Layout>Select>Table.
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Thanks Charles & Paul for all your help


Thank you, Paul, for confirming that it can be done. I'll have to try this on my laptop, in case it's the PC not playing fairly LOL


I'd like to mark this thread as SOLVED so I hope I can find how to do this LOL

Thanks again.
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