11/16 Jay Ankeney—need help with macros upgrading to Word 365
Dear Microsoft Support,
I’ve been going through a real mess upgrading from Word 2011 to Word 365.
Having spent many, many hours on the phone with your guaranteed technical support, I am now writing to you.
The final function I am trying to get to work is one of my macros that did not properly translate from Word 2011 to Word 365..
I use a series of macros to enter dates with notes in my research organiztion, all assigned to the function keys along the top of the keyboard.
I’ve managed to get most of them to work, but one of them just stubbornly refuses to run under its designated keyboard shortcut.
I’ve called it macro 6, and assigned it to F6.
(The others are successfully assigned to F1 through F9) or the previous “
If I go to the macro dialog panel under tools, click on “macro 6” and hit “run”, it works fine.
But if I try to get it to run by hitting F6, nothing happens.
I have pasted the list of code copied from editing Macro 6 in the macros dialog box below this note in the hope that you can find out why it will not run under its assigned keystroke of F6.
hHaving spent an aggregious number of hours with Microsoft tech support, your basic level of support has finally given up.
Yes, given up. And apparently closed case number 144845004
Through screen sharing, they have verified that I am creating the macro properly, but unlike the other 10 or so I have written it simply won’t run under the F6 keyboard command to which it is assigned—or anyother key ccombination.
As I wrote to my local Mac user group, the South Bay Mac User Group (SBAMUG):
“Despite their promise of 24/7 tech support, Microsoft claims that macro functions are a professional “add-on” (of all the gall) and won’t upgrade me to their pro tech support for less than $499.
It sure seems to me that if it works properly when I hit “run” in the macro dialog box but not if I hit the key to which it is assigned, there must be just one line of code away from getting this thing to type into my Word documents just lke my other macros do.
Does anyone have any suggstions?
Or know of any other resourcss?
(BTW, as you can see from the typos I intentionally left in this note, the spell checker in Word 365 is faulty, too. Word 2011 would have caught “ccombination” or “resourcss” amoong others in this note)”
So I hope you at Microsoft Support can take a look at this list of code and let me know what is wrong.

Code for Macro 6
Sub Macro6()
'
' Macro6 Macro
'
'
With Selection.Font
.Name = "New York"
.Size = 12
.Bold = False
.Italic = False
.Underline = wdUnderlineNone
.UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic
.StrikeThrough = False
.DoubleStrikeThrough = False
.Outline = False
.Emboss = False
.Shadow = False
.Hidden = False
.SmallCaps = False
.AllCaps = False
.Color = wdColorRed
.Engrave = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.Spacing = 0
.Scaling = 100
.Position = 0
.Kerning = 0
.Animation = wdAnimationNone
End With
Selection.InsertDateTime DateTimeFormat:="M/d/yy", InsertAsField:=False, _
DateLanguage:=wdEnglishUS, CalendarType:=wdCalendarWestern, _
InsertAsFullWidth:=False
Selection.TypeText Text:="--INT"
With Selection.Font
.Name = "New York"
.Size = 12
.Bold = False
.Italic = False
.Underline = wdUnderlineNone
.UnderlineColor = wdColorAutomatic
.StrikeThrough = False
.DoubleStrikeThrough = False
.Outline = False
.Emboss = False
.Shadow = False
.Hidden = False
.SmallCaps = False
.AllCaps = False
.Color = -587137025
.Engrave = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.Spacing = 0
.Scaling = 100
.Position = 0
.Kerning = 0
.Animation = wdAnimationNone
End With
Selection.TypeParagraph
End Sub

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