Microsoft Word macros useful to appellate lawyers.
Better instructions for use are forthcoming, but basically:
- Tools / Macro / Visual Basic Editor
- Normal / Modules / NewMacros
- Paste the macro (from "Sub" to "End Sub", inclusive) at the bottom of the code box.
To trigger a macro:
- Tools / Macros / Macro
- Run
Or, better,
Tools / Customize Keyboard
and assign a key combination (I like cmd-opt and shift-cmd-opt) to a macro.
For example, I've assigned "shift-cmd-opt-v" to the pasteWestlaw macro, which takes the text in the keyboard (presumably a quote copied with its citation from Westlaw) and pastes it at the cursor, cleaned up and in quotation marks.