{"id":8135,"date":"2021-11-26T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8135"},"modified":"2021-11-26T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T12:11:18","slug":"how-do-i-launch-a-word-macro-from-a-desktop-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/how-do-i-launch-a-word-macro-from-a-desktop-shortcut\/17141.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Launch A Word Macro From A Desktop Shortcut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I created a multi-page form in MS Word 2010. I then drafted a short macro that inserts the date and time into the form and then moves the cursor to the first open field. I want to put a shortcut on my desktop that, when clicked, opens Word, opens the document and runs the short macro. How do I do that?<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to find the macro file and drag-and-drop a copy onto my desktop so that when I click it it would automatically open the document and run the set-up macro. I found the normal.dotm file but can&#8217;t access individual macros within it. Is there a way to place on my desktop a shortcut to a particular Word macro?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":5},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}