Scared of macros? Here are three alternatives, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. You can learn more about them in
Year: 2014
How to change font size in Word’s Reviewing Pane Sidebar
Tired eyes, tiny type? Bump up the font size in the Reviewing Pane to read Comments and tracked changes with
Best resources from the week of June 7-13
Being a new convert to Storify and the easy with which it aggregates content and displays it prettily, I am
Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF
Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo
Successful Career Unplanning
Half of you are probably so busy meeting deadlines (or watching them woosh by) that you haven’t even planned
Multiple Monitors for Editing Efficiency
Why are multiple monitor screens more efficient? It might only take a few seconds to sort through the dozen
EAC 2014 — editors’ conference report
Thanks to social media, I got insights from sessions I couldn’t clone myself to be in, and took notes and
Intro to Advanced Acrobatics
This handout is from my presentation at the EAC 2014 conference. Get a printable PDF version here. Mark up any
The downside of freelancing: links this week
It was one of those weeks where everyone posts fabulous content (me included, here and elsewhere). It was also a
The argument for making changes silently, not tracking them
I espouse making routine copy editing changes silently; that is, without tracking them in Word. From editors, I hear a