OUR SERVICES
Custom Microsoft Office solutions built around you Focused on real results.
We help teams make the most of Microsoft Office — designing, building, and fixing systems across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Every solution is tailored to your setup, from simple fixes to full automation builds.
Does this sound like you?
Broken Templates, Failing Macros
You rely on Word, Excel, or PowerPoint every day, but your templates or macros constantly break?
Endless Formatting & Repetition
You spend too much time fixing formatting, copying data, or doing the same repetitive tasks?
No Time to Build It Right
You know there’s a smarter way to automate your work — but you don’t have the time or expertise to build it properly?
Custom solutions for real-world office problems
Microsoft Word
Build smarter, brand-ready documents that just work.
What we do:
- Design and build branded Word templates
- Set up consistent styles, headers, and footers
- Convert/update documents via bulk processing
- Create advanced macros and VBA tools
- Build custom ribbons, toolbars, and form dialogs
- Automate mail merges and PDF exports
- Integrate with document management systems (iManage, DM)
Outcome:
Consistent, professional documents — automated, brand-aligned, and effortless to maintain.
Microsoft Excel
Turn data chaos into clarity and automation.
What we do:
- Automate reports and data workflows with VBA
- Create custom toolbars, ribbons, and add-ins
- Design dynamic charts and formatted templates
- Fix legacy files, errors, and version upgrades
- Pull and process data from external sources
- Process raw CSV data into human readable information
- Integrate with document management systems (iManage, DM)
Outcome:
Optimise spreadsheets for performance and accuracy
Microsoft PowerPoint
Deliver professional, on-brand presentations with ease.
What we do:
- Build branded slide templates and layouts
- Design toolbars and macros for quick editing
- Apply consistent themes and colour palettes
- Automate recurring slide or chart updates
- Repair or upgrade legacy presentation files
- Standardise branding across all decks
Outcome:
On-brand, visually consistent presentations that save hours of formatting time.
Outlook
Streamline communication and simplify daily tasks.
What we do:
- Build custom ribbons and macros for productivity
- Automate filing, archiving, and attachment cleanup
- Design branded layouts and signatures
- Create workflow tools for repetitive tasks
- Integrate Outlook with other Office apps
- Optimise inbox management for teams
Outcome:
A faster, cleaner, and smarter inbox experience that saves time across the team.
Specialist Work & Integrations
For teams running older or complex setups, we also:
- Upgrade full Office file systems (2003 → 365)
- Migrate VBA systems to .NET with installers
- Repair corrupted documents or recover data
- Resolve 32-bit / 64-bit issues and memory errors
- Integrate Office apps with cloud systems or CRMs
- Debug crashing applications and legacy add-ins
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you really automate almost anything in Microsoft Excel?
Yes you can. You can do a huge amount with formulas but you may find yourself with formulas so complex that everything becomes ‘all too hard’ – especially when things go wrong. This is where automation code can come in – press a button and have the data processed / moved / formatted
I've been using some Excel Macros that are quite a few years old now. They still sort of work in later versions of Excel. They also sometimes throw errors that we have no idea how to fix. What's the best approach here?
Age of code can be factor here for sure. It really depends how the code was originally written. Sometimes the code is just ‘recorded’ from the built in Excel Macro recorder. This often doesn’t produce the best code. In this case, we’d need to examine the code and possibly try to replicate the errors. This will quickly give us an idea of what the main issues are. They can be fixed though! It Might be a case of they need a small tweak or you might be better served with a total code rewrite.
We have a huge amount of documents in our organisation and we're trying to do a bulk rebrand on these. Is this something that can be done or do we need to work on one document at a time?
You absolutely can do can bulk rebrand. We could put some code together that works through a pile of documents making necessary changes and saving them somewhere else. We’d like to make sure you are using base templates though, with proper styles to maintain branding on newly generated documents though!
What's the best way to ensure brand consistency, styling and formatting that adheres to our style guide when it comes to sending out client letters and templates in general?
This is a problem for many organisations. The best approach is to take a step back and make sure all your ‘cookie cutters’ are set up correctly from the get go, that way each ‘cookie’ or document comes off a template that is set up correctly from the start. A template automation solution could be your answer here.
We have some complex templating systems that use Office Ribbon XML and collections of macros in the back end. We've notices some errors about 64 compatibility. How do we upgrade these?
Usually we see these because the code in the backend may have API declarations that reference directly older versions of functions and DLLs. Usually, these just need a correction/repoint and that should solve that issue for you.
In regards to MS Word, Headers and Footers plus the use of section breaks seems to cause us a forever nightmare. Is there a simpler / better way?
This has been a huge issue for many years for many organisations especially for lengthy and complex documents. The approach we have is try to keep everything simple. Do you really need multiple different sections / headers and footers? Sometimes the best approach is to start over, rather than pushing on deeper in the rabbit hole. We understand though, some legal documents need different footers (perhaps Roman numerals on a TOC page) then Arabic or regular numbering after that. This all often comes down to setting the template up correctly from the start and giving it a good test. If you need to insert a new section, doing it manually is fraught with danger – huge suggestion here is to automate that (Click a button) so it will insert seamlessly instantly and maintain formatting, integrity and continue page numbering properly as well (page numbering is a whole separate issue!).
We have really big TOC's (Table of Contents) in some of our lengthy agreement documents. The indentation in the TOC seems to change every time we refresh the TOC. What is going on here?
Another common issue. This can depend on the length of the headings that are being included in the TOC. There is also a raft of other things to check: The actual TOC style properties, the TOC field itself and even the page that the TOC is on.
Let’s make your Microsoft Office suite faster, simpler, and smarter.
Get in Touch
Get your Microsoft 365 environment back on track with Global Macros.
- 0485 605 207
- info@globalmacros.com
- Based in North Sydney, available Globally