Archive for the ‘Editing’ Category
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Editors who use Microsoft Word's revision-tracking feature in documents with footnotes (or endnotes) have often complained of an annoyance: If you delete a note (which you should do only by deleting the reference mark in the text), the reference mark is struck out, but the text of the note itself ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Out 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 ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
While editing in Word, you may use Word's Comments feature (Insert > Comment) to insert questions for your client--or possibly your client has used comments to insert questions for you. In either case, there will probably come a time when you need to remove the comments so the file can ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Bookmarks in a Word document are useful for many things, such as, well, marking your place, marking ranges for index entries, and marking text for cross-references. But they can also get in the way--for example, if you've finished editing a document for a client and have several dozen bookmarks you've ...
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
If you've spent much time in user groups related to Microsoft Word, Macintosh computers, or technical writing, you've probably seen postings and articles by Geoff Hart, one of the most prolific, respected, and helpful writers and Word experts I know. And now for the big news: Geoff has released his ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
In my last few years as a corporate employee, I felt compelled to edit faster and faster while still maintaining accuracy. (Could it have had something to do with the many rounds of layoffs in the company?) If you're feeling the same squeeze, I have some suggestions that might help. Share ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Word 2008, for Macintosh, isn't out yet but will be later this year:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx Share
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
Here it is, 2007 already. So it seems appropriate to look at Word 2007 and see if it's something editors and other publishing professionals might find useful. You'll find Microsoft's sales pitch here: Share
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
I've recently needed to help several people convert Microsoft Word text boxes to text. Is there something in the wind? Whatever is going on, if you're having to copy and paste, copy and paste, to get that text out where you can use it, you'll appreciate the following macro, which ...
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
In our last episode, I provided a macro to make a list of misspelled words found in a document. You'll find the macro here: Share
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