Editorium Update

[Editor’s note: This week’s feature article comes from Dan A. Wilson, a true gentleman and an editor’s editor. Dan explains how to modify even the *built-in* buttons on Word’s “My Places” toolbar. Don’t want a “Desktop” button getting in your way? Dan explains how to remove it–and much more. I really appreciate Dan’s generosity in supplying this information. If you’re not already familiar with Dan’s work, you’ll definitely want to visit his Web site, the Editor’s DeskTop, where he has still more useful information that every editor should read:

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This week I’ve been editing a new project in Microsoft Word and decided to try something new–editing in Print Layout in Full-Screen mode. I didn’t think I’d like it, but I do–a lot. If you want to try it, you can activate the feature by adjusting some items under the View menu, in this order:

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In the Open, Save, and Save As dialogs in recent versions of Word, there’s a large vertical toolbar on the left-hand side of the dialog. The toolbar has buttons on it that make it easy to get to such places as My Documents and Desktop. Appropriately enough, the name of the toolbar is “My Places.” Or maybe that’s not so appropriate, since in any version of Word before 2002, there’s no way to modify this toolbar–at least no way I’ve been able to find.

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