Editorium Update

Have you ever needed to know what Unicode characters are being used in a Word document? Maybe you need to tag them in some way. Maybe you need to replace them with other characters. Maybe you need to change their font. Whatever the reason, you can find them all with this procedure:

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In our shop, typesetters like to see a sheet of paper showing the page layout for a book they are about to typeset. This saves them from having to guess the location and pagination the editor has in mind for an epigraph, dedication, preface, introduction, and so on. For years our editors created page layouts by hand, drawing little boxes and writing in their instructions. The drawings looked something like this:

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Microsoft Word includes the ability to display line numbers in a document, as explained in last week’s newsletter. Unfortunately, it *doesn’t* include the ability to display paragraph numbers. And if you need to display paragraph numbers, that’s a problem. So, here’s a macro that will add a number, formatted as red and hidden, at the beginning of each paragraph:

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