Time-Saving Macros for Firefox, Word and Excel

If you find yourself doing a lot of repetitive tasks all the time, and you’re a Firefox user, I definitely recommend iMacros from iOpus, which I’ve covered before here. The download for this Firefox extension is free, and it shows up as a button on your browser toolbar for easy availability.

The iMacros application lets you record, edit, name and organize macros for every kind of repetitive browser-based task you do. Recording macros with iMacros is very easy and requires no coding on your part. You just perform your regularly executed tasks, and it records what you do.

While iMacros is an extension for Firefox, many widely used productivity applications let you easily record and use macros directly from within your application. For a very easy set of instructions for building macros in Microsoft Word, check here.

Speaking of productivity applications, Excel has a long history of macro development done on a community basis, and there are huge books collecting useful macros for the spreadsheet application. You can find many collections of pre-built Excel macros online for free. If you want to get started recording your own macros for Excel, check here.

Macros are big time-savers if you’re willing to put a little work into mastering how to build, record and manage them. You definitely need no programming knowledge to get started.

Do you know of any good macro collections, applications, or how-to’s?

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