Archive for April, 2005

Finding All Unicode Characters

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

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 ...

Page Layout Template

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

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 ...

Paragraph Numbers

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

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 ...