Microsoft Access 2010 : Creating an Embedded Macro

1.	In Design view, click to select the object to which you want to associate the macro (for example, a command button).
2.	Open the Property Sheet, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Use the Property Sheet to associate a macro with the event of an object.
3.	Click the Event tab of the Property Sheet.
4.	Click within the event to which you want to associate the embedded macro. In Figure 1 the On Click event is selected.
5.	Click the build button (the ellipse). The Choose Builder dialog box appears (see Figure 2). Figure 2. The Choose Builder dialog box enables you to specify that you want to build a macro.
6.	Select Macro Builder and click OK. A Macro Design window appears, as shown in Figure 3. Notice in Figure 10.16 that the Macro tab is labeled cmdSayHello: On Click, indicating that the macro is associated with the On Click event of cmdSayHello. Figure 3. The macro that you create is associated with the appropriate event of the designated object.
7.	Enter the macro commands as you would for any macro, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4. Your macro commands appear just like macros that are not embedded.
8.	Close the Macro Design window. Access prompts you to save changes to the macro and update the property, as in Figure 5. Figure 5. If you save your changes, Access embeds the macro in the object.
9.	Click Yes to save your changes and close the dialog box. You have now created the embedded macro.

One advantage of embedded macros is that if you copy the object containing the embedded macro, the macro copies with the object. For example, if you copy a command button from one form to another, the entire embedded macro will be associated with the command button on the second form. If you then change one of the embedded macros, it does not affect the other one.