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Year: 2016

How to Escape the Pause

How to Escape the Pause

How to use a pause clause in your work agreement to get out of a project sitting in limbo, today

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How to Use Rush Fees

How to Use Rush Fees

When, how, and why to set rush fees: because you are the lifesaver. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Spoiler:

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How to Edit for Lawyers

How to Edit for Lawyers

You don’t need to don a barrister’s wig to edit legal text. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com,

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How to Get Permission to Use Quotes and Graphics

How to Get Permission to Use Quotes and Graphics

You know you need permission to use that quote/ graph/ picture/ song lyric, but how do you ask? Get started

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Flag Problem Words Automatically

Flag Problem Words Automatically

This macro flags problem words in the MS. My favourite part of the Copyediting Newsletter treatment of my latest “Technically Speaking” column

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How to Regain the Critical Ear

How to Regain the Critical Ear

When you are used to preserving the author’s voice, it can be a challenge to keep changing it when asked.

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How to Attune Your Ear to the Author’s Voice

How to Attune Your Ear to the Author’s Voice

How to attune your ear to an author’s voice so that you can preserve it while you edit. (link to my post on ACES)

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Open PDFs in Their Own Windows, Not Tabs in Acrobat DC

Open PDFs in Their Own Windows, Not Tabs in Acrobat DC

There are two ways to open PDFs in their own windows in Adobe Acrobat DC: the New Window option or

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What Is Proofreading?

What Is Proofreading?

What proofreading is and isn’t, and when it happens to words within the production cycle — today, in my How To column

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How to Survive a Heavy Editing Job

How to Survive a Heavy Editing Job

Those editing jobs that make doing your taxes look good? I have a host of tips for eating that frog,

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