Thanks for providing the definitive answer, Tony!

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"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
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As Suzanne and Graham have said, you _can_ have your macros in a Word
document in just the same way as you can have them in an Excel Workbook.

Equally you can have your macros in your Personal.xls in Excel in the same
way as you can have them in your Normal.dot in Word, and both applications
have similar facilities for AddIns which can also hold code.

Word also offers the extra possibility of storing them in a Document
Template so that they are available to many documents. So, really, it is
Excel, rather than Word, that is deficient :-)

There is a difference in the default behaviours of the two regarding where
recorded macros are written, which perhaps gives the impression that they
work in different ways - but impression is all it is, really.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"drgn75" wrote in message
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I know this has been answered before, but I'm looking for more
clarification.
Why is Word set up this way, why can't the macro's just be part of the
file
(like Excel)? When you create a macro in Excel it follows the file,
regardless of what computer it is on. Why isn't Word the same, or can
you
have the macro attached to the file regardless of computer or user? Not
sure
what benefits there are to have it exclusively this way.

Thanks for any reply.