Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose — reblogged by ACES.
Category: MS Word
How to Find Out What a Character Is in Word
Need to get more than this from Word? Wondering what character that really is in your Word document? Has the writer
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
How to See and Insert Non-Printing Characters in Word
Reveal and insert non-printing characters to control and troubleshoot formatting in MS Word. Do you know what these symbols mean?
How to Insert Symbols in Word
Word probably converts your (C) to a © automatically, but what about the other symbols? Learn how to access them
Three alternatives to macros
Scared of macros? Here are three alternatives, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. You can learn more about them in
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
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
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
How to Get a Word Count from a Live Multi-page Website
Sometimes the cart is pushing the horse, and a client wants a quote on copy editing a live (or about