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What Is a Macro in MS Word?

This article can help you identify the meaning of a macro in MS Word and understand its use

A macro is essentially a way to "assign" multiple commands in MS Word to a singular hotkey. In general, macros are used primarily to streamline your workload in MS Word by allowing you to map the tools or specific formatting options you use frequently to one or more hotkeys.

Example: When you're working on a document and you find yourself using the Bold and the Italic function to highlight parts of a paragraph. By default, those are two separate keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+B for Bold, and Ctrl+I for italic. MS Word allows for you to combine those two shortcuts into one with the use of a macro.

How it works is, MS Word give you the ability to "record" commands into a macro, essentially mapping multiple keyboard shortcuts into one. So, instead of using Ctrl+B and then CTRL+I separately to make something bold and italicizied, you can map those two commands to something like Alt+Ctrl+B by using macros in MS Word.

NOTE: You can learn more on how to create a macro in MS Word here.