Some attendees who were at my “Visual Studio Tips and Tricks” last Wednesday at the TechDays conference in Montréal told me that they were unable to run the increase/decrease font size macro (tips # 242 – original Sara’s post: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/20/did-you-know-you-can-bind-macros-to-keyboard-shortcuts-or-how-to-quickly-increase-decrease-your-text-editor-font-size-242.aspx). In fact, the real problem is that the macros are not loaded.

I have seen the problem on 2 computers so far. Each time the problem was the same and was easy to fix. First, open Visual Studio. Then open Tools->Macros->Macro Explorer (or press ALT-F8). In there, the samples folder should appear empty. Right-click Macros and select “Load macro project”. Navigate to the “C:\Users\{your account name goes here}\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\VSMacros80\Samples” folder and select the Samples.vsmacros file. Finally, click the Add button. You should now be good.