Archive for June, 2004
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
Our previous newsletter mentioned our WordCounter program, which can now tell you how many times each word has been used in a document--and I promised to show you how that might be useful for editing. The newsletter also featured a macro that will create a concordance, or list of all ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
Have you ever needed to make a list of every word in a document? If so, here's a macro that will do it for you automatically. Basically, the macro marks an index entry for every word in your document, generates the index, and removes the page numbers, leaving you with ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
Our previous article outlined a fairly lengthy Find and Replace routine to make sure inclusive (elided) numbers follow the style outlined in the Chicago Manual. Astute reader Andrew Lockton responded with a technique that is so important, it deserves a second article. Andrew suggested taking the "Find What Expression" wildcard, ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2004
I recently worked on a manuscript with lots of source citations, many of which had page numbers formatted like this: Share
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