i'm trying to familiarize myself with creating macros, do the macro names
have to begin with a letter or can they begin with any character, eg. 56, 88?

If you want to use macros, you want to learn to write them, not just record
them. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...csIn15Mins.htm. The
recorder can be a starting place but generates very poor code. Many Word
functions can't be reached using the recorder at all.

Looking at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm it would
appear that names can begin with numbers, but not with punctuation. I
haven't tried it because I try to follow the Word command structure of
naming macros with real words or abbreviations with an uppercase letter
beginning each new word. When you assign a macro to a button, the tooltip is
automatically this name with the words separated by spaces in the tooltip
(but _not_ in the name itself). Example: Sub MoveToTemplate will generate a
tooltip of "Move To Template."

I would recommend looking at Steve Roman's book on Word Macros. It will save
you a lot of time and pain.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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i'm trying to familiarize myself with creating macros, do the macro names
have to begin with a letter or can they begin with any character, eg. 56,
88?