Teachers and students frequently copy information and other resources from a variety of documents and/or Web sites and then paste them into a single document. Often, those resources represent different fonts, different font sizes, and a variety of other formatting elements. You can, however, create a macro that will convert all those formatting elements into a single style -- one of your own choosing.

Open a new Microsoft Word document and type the following sentence three times: We hold these truths to be self-evident. Highlight the first sentence and change the font to Courier, size 8. Highlight the second sentence, center it, and change the font to Times New Roman 16. Highlight the third sentence and change the color of the text to purple. Your document should look like this:

Now, let's create a macro that will clean up this formatting mess!

Next: More formatting macro instructions.