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How to Find Non-Printing Characters in MS Word

This week in my How To column at Copyediting.com we look at how to find those hidden light-blue non-printing characters using Word’s Find

I wish this meant fun competition for copy editors, but no: apparently there is some kind of international sports

Reveal and insert non-printing characters to control and troubleshoot formatting in MS Word. Do you know what these symbols mean?

How to decide when punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com. Spoiler: Canadian

Captions are a weak link in the quality assurance chain, being something most people skim or skip while reviewing a

Guest post by Rachel Stuckey Vizzini didn’t have much of an imagination. He couldn’t conceive of the implausible, possible, or

Word probably converts your (C) to a © automatically, but what about the other symbols? Learn how to access them

Updated May 2020, because internet. There are some punctuation marks that can make prose look absurd — especially with overuse.

In my first post of the “marking up PDFs” series, I showed the many uses of stamps in Acrobat. Setting

Scared of macros? Here are three alternatives, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. You can learn more about them in