Setting Up Microsoft Word for Use in Publishing
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Out of the box, Microsoft Word is set up for the most generic of users–someone who needs to type an occasional letter or compose a memo for the boss. It works well for such purposes, offering lots of automated corrections and formatting for someone who doesn’t want to think about such things. But for people who work in the publishing industry, Word needs considerable tweaking. For one thing, if you’re editing, typesetting, or indexing in Word, you don’t *want* all that automated stuff; you want *control.* No automatically capitalizing the first word of a sentence, for example, or setting the ends of ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) as superscript.