The list of updates to this third edition of Effective Onscreen Editing, by Geoff Hart is enough to convince me this books will pay for itself.
Year: 2016
How to Ask for Feedback
How and when to ask clients for feedback, this and 5 questions in my column today at Copyediting.com.
Academic Editing Basics
Academic Editing Basics, part 1, today in my How To column at Copyediting.com, in which I explore what you need to know to edit academic
Automate Formatting With Word
Automate formatting in Word, learn how in my How To column on Copyediting. This pairs well with last week’s post on using AutoCorrect.
Automate Typing With Word
Turn Word into that friend who smooths everything over. This, and other tips for making AutoCorrect work for editors, today, in my Copyediting post.
Make a Custom Tab on Word’s Ribbon
A custom Ribbon tab is a great productivity alternative to memorizing shortcuts for those who are more visually oriented. This option is now available for
Weird Your Way to Success
Lessons from the Design Thinkers conference in Toronto, Canada: “confessions” was the official theme, but the theme that emerged for me was how being your weird
Horrifying Edits, We Hope
Sometimes, the editing is supposed to be scary. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I talk to genre editor Lillian Cohen-Moore about how she manages to sleep at night when
Outside the Coloring Lines
If it’s got words in it, an editor will work on it. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I talk to two coloring
Iceman CSI: Tales from a 5300-year-old man
So you’re hiking with some friends through the Italian Alps, and you come across this desiccated body, half frozen in the ice. What horror! How