Macro "description"

[Fred Holmes]

In the Alt-F8 macro dialog, the text box at the bottom of the dialog
is labelled "Macro Description," but contains the uninformative
content, "Macro created/recorded [date] by [name]." How does one edit
this description? If I edit the text in the text box itself, there
isn't any way to save the changes I've made, that I can find. The
"description" doesn't seem to be a copy of the comment in the macro
itself, because editing the comment in the macro code itself doesn't
change the text in the description.

 

[Doug Robbins]

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[Fred Holmes]

Well, what I get from several of the google hits is to edit the text
in the text box of the Alt-F8 "Macro" dialog. As I said in my
original post, in Word 2003, that is what I already have tried and
that doesn't seem to work. While I can edit the text, there doesn't
seem to be any way to save the changes.

In Word 2003, if I _record_ a macro, I can edit the description text
when the record macro dialog appears originally, and that editing
works. But if I want to change the description of an existing macro,
whether it was recorded or simply written out in vba, editing the
description box in the Alt-F8 dialog is not saved. It reverts back to
the original description. Ctrl-S doesn't save it. There's no
"handle" (button, menu) to save it. ???

v/r

Fred Holmes

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interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

In the Alt-F8 macro dialog, the text box at the bottom of the dialog
is labelled "Macro Description," but contains the uninformative
content, "Macro created/recorded [date] by [name]." How does one edit
this description? If I edit the text in the text box itself, there
isn't any way to save the changes I've made, that I can find. The
"description" doesn't seem to be a copy of the comment in the macro
itself, because editing the comment in the macro code itself doesn't
change the text in the description.

 

[Fred Holmes]

Well, I've discovered that if, after editing the "description," I
press the "Organizer" command button and then immediately exit the
"Organizer" dialog box, then the changes to the Macro Description text
box are saved. But that's not the way it's supposed to be saved????
Pressing Enter just starts a new paragraph in the "description"
dialog.

Well, what I get from several of the google hits is to edit the text
in the text box of the Alt-F8 "Macro" dialog. As I said in my
original post, in Word 2003, that is what I already have tried and
that doesn't seem to work. While I can edit the text, there doesn't
seem to be any way to save the changes.

In Word 2003, if I _record_ a macro, I can edit the description text
when the record macro dialog appears originally, and that editing
works. But if I want to change the description of an existing macro,
whether it was recorded or simply written out in vba, editing the
description box in the Alt-F8 dialog is not saved. It reverts back to
the original description. Ctrl-S doesn't save it. There's no
"handle" (button, menu) to save it. ???

v/r

Fred Holmes

When you don't know how to do something, Google for it. See

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...tnG=Search&meta=group=Microsoft.public.word.*

--
Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
consulting basis.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

In the Alt-F8 macro dialog, the text box at the bottom of the dialog
is labelled "Macro Description," but contains the uninformative
content, "Macro created/recorded [date] by [name]." How does one edit
this description? If I edit the text in the text box itself, there
isn't any way to save the changes I've made, that I can find. The
"description" doesn't seem to be a copy of the comment in the macro
itself, because editing the comment in the macro code itself doesn't
change the text in the description.