Customizing the dictionaries used by spellcheck helps editors get the most out of this automated support. Previous posts in this series covered running and rerunning spell
Month: February 2018
Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 2
You know Spellcheck, and in the previous post, you learned about language preferences and how to control them.Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, we’ll look
Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 1
We take Spellcheck for granted, so maybe we don’t know all it can do for us. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I begin my
Using Character Spaces Effectively
In the beginning, there wasn’t even space. “Writing in ancient Greece was broken by neither marks nor spaces,” writes Keith Houston on his blog, Shady
When to Worry About an NDA
I once signed an NDA that said I couldn’t even say that a meeting had taken place to sign the NDA. And it didn’t. There
Create a Figures Log
Whether because the team is small or because the process is compressing, tracking figures can fall into the editor’s domain. Today, in my How To column at