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You use Microsoft Word and take saved a healthy collection of macros to ease your work–now you're migrating to a different PC and want to accept those macros with you. No trouble: You tin import your Word macros from one computer to another.

You lot can transfer macros at least a couple of different means–I'll encompass two methods that work for me. For this procedure I'm using the latest version of Word through an Office 365 subscription, only the steps are the aforementioned for the past few versions of Word.

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How to copy Word's Normal.dotm template file

The first method involves copying the default Normal.dotm template on which all new Word documents are based. This template houses the macros you've added to Word, along with other settings and customizations.

1. Open Word on your current figurer.
2. Click on the View tab, select the Macros icon, and select View Macros (Effigy A).

Figure A

iii. Make sure the selection for Macros In is set to Normal.dotm (Global Template) and that the macros yous wish to transfer to your new computer are all listed (Effigy B).

Effigy B

iv. Shut the Macros window, and exit Word.
5. Open File Explorer or Windows Explorer, and navigate to C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates. (If the AppData folder doesn't appear, click the View tab, and check the box for Hidden Items.)
6. Select and copy the Normal.dotm file in this folder (Figure C).
7. Paste the file in a location accessible to your new computer, such as a network share or a removable difficult drive or USB stick.

Figure C

8. Move to your new computer.
9. Open File Explorer or Windows Explorer, and navigate to C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates.
10. Rename the existing Normal.dotm file to something like Normal-sometime.dotm.
eleven. Re-create and paste the Normal.dotm file from your other reckoner (Figure D).

Effigy D

12. Open Microsoft Word.
13. Click the View tab, select the Macros icon, and select View Macros. You should now see the macros from your older computer (Figure E).

Effigy E

By copying the unabridged Normal.dotm template, you non just behave over all macros but other settings and customizations that you may or may not desire to use to Word on your new computer. If yous want just the macros and not other settings, hither'southward a different arroyo.

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How to copy the macros just

one. Copy the Normal.dotm file from your sometime computer, and paste the file on a network share, a removable hard drive, or a USB stick.
2. Rename the file from Normal.dotm to something like Normal-new.dotm, and paste that file into C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates on your new computer.
3. Open up Word on your new computer.
4. Click the View tab, select the Macros icon, and select View Macros.
5. In the Macros window, click the push button for Organizer (Figure F).

Figure F

half-dozen. At the Organizer window, click the push on the left side to Close File.
7. Click the aforementioned button to Open File.
8. Select the Normal-new.dotm file that you pasted earlier. The file should prove an entry for NewMacros.
9. Brand sure the right side of the window points to Normal.dotm as the target.
10. Select the entry for NewMacros, and click the Re-create button (Figure G). The entry for NewMacros at present appears in the right side.

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xi. Close the Organizer window.
12. Select the Macros icon, and select View Macros. You should at present see the macros y'all copied to the Normal.dotm template on your new computer (Figure H).

Effigy H