From the The ASUS Info Booth topic (at Notebook Review forum), I found a link called Customize ASUS hotkeys. That link sent me to Asus notebook keys, v1.3 topic on that forum:
Asus notebook keys, v1.3
This program gives you ability to define own actions for additional buttons of Asus notebooks.
That's all I needed! What's more: the source-code is included! (too bad I don't have Visual Studio).
However, the program from the first post has a silly GUI mistake, which was later fixed by another user and then released as AsusNbKeysCtr-1.3fix.zip (but without source-code).
Using that program (the fixed version), I was able to remap the extra laptop keys to Volume Up, Volume Down and Volume Mute keystrokes, which are directly recognized by Windows. That's great, and solves half of my problem!
The other half, however, involves changing the monitor brightness. Unfortunately, there is no easy solution for that, and I need a command-line program to increase and decrease the brightness.
I've found two command-line applications that allow me to set the brightness to some value, but they do not allow me to increase or decrease it. The first one is Brightener, written by Ciaran user. The second one is Display Brightness Vista Gadget from edgylogic.com. Since they don't solve my issue, I still need a program to change the brightness.
Best Answer
The macro recorder is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Instead, you can use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create or edit macros. To create or edit a macro by using VBA, do the following:
Source: MS Powerpoint 2007 Help File
Why was the record macro feature removed from Powerpoint 2007?
According to Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP, macro recorder wasn't all that great even in 2002/2003. It missed all animation stuff and other things. With all the changes to the object model in 2007, bringing the recorder up to speed would've taken a LOT of work. They probably decided the resources would be better spent on other features and rather than deal with a lot of tech support problems with the macro recorder, and they removed it. (Tech-archive)