Editorium Update

One of the problems of editing on-screen is that punctuation marks are harder to see than on paper. Is that speck on my screen a period or just spray from my Diet Coke? (Sorry. Didn’t mean to gross you out.) There’s an easy remedy for this–one I like a lot. Just create a character style that’s big and bold and colorful. Then record a macro to find and replace punctuation marks with themselves, formatted with your character style. Here’s how:

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If you’ve done much editing in Microsoft Word, you’ve probably used Track Changes (Revisions), which marks deleted and added text so you can review (or let someone else review) your editing. If you haven’t used it, here’s how to turn it on:

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Last week’s newsletter suggested various ways to change the view in Word as a way to pick up errors missed during a first editing pass. You can read the newsletter here:

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Lyon’s Law of Typos: On your first glance at a newly typeset document, you will immediately discover an error you missed while editing.

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Sometimes to find or replace a Unicode character in Microsoft Word, you need the character’s number, as explained in the June 12, 2002, issue of Editorium Update:

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