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    Measure Elements of a PDF

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    Hack for a Rapid Alts Check on PDFs

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Managing Risks as a Writer or Editor

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When to Worry About an NDA

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Ethical Issues in Editing: What the Professional Standards Say

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Editor Vs AI: Is editing a dead career?

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person lowering the dial on an oversized risk meter by pulling a rope on the indicator

Managing Risks as a Writer or Editor

woman motioning shh

When to Worry About an NDA

a drably dressed person with a lit light bulb head sits thinking on a misty moody forest floor

Ethical Issues in Editing: What the Professional Standards Say

people of various ethnicities and genders around a borad room table

12 Steps toward Diversity in Publishing

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Treating Plagiarism

Editor [and] AI: Wildcard Searches

Editor Vs AI: ChatGPT-4 Tries a Chicago Style Workout

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Editor Vs AI: CMOS Grammar

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When to Use the TM and R Symbols

How to Learn Structural Editing

How to Learn Structural Editing

Reading list to develop skills in structural/developmental editing.

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Do I Have to Spell It Out for You? Acronyms & Initialisms

Do I Have to Spell It Out for You? Acronyms & Initialisms

Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.

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25 Project Red Flags

25 Project Red Flags

Learn to see the bad clients coming.

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Measure Elements of a PDF

Measure Elements of a PDF

For quality control, there are times a designer or proofreader needs to measure elements of a PDF. You can do this with the measurement tool

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Change the Look of Marks  on a PDF

Change the Look of Marks on a PDF

Of course there are 4 ways to change the properties of almost any mark you make on a PDF. Some methods are easier to access,

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Hack for a Rapid Alts Check on PDFs

Hack for a Rapid Alts Check on PDFs

Cut your time and boost your accuracy with this trick for comparing dead copy changes to live copy. Make sure all the changes were correctly

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PC on a Stick

PC on a Stick

I tried it so you don’t have to. Well, in this case, you might want to. A PC on a stick, as I call it, is a fully functioning computer in a thumb drive.

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Compile Markup & Reviews into a Single PDF

Compile Markup & Reviews into a Single PDF

Compiling everyone’s feedback into a single document was a tedious, time consuming, and error prone task. Until now.

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Anonymize Metadata in PDF Markup

Anonymize Metadata in PDF Markup

Don’t want the team knowing you worked all night marking up the PDF page proofs? Reset the time stamp on select markup in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

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Plain Language Checklist for Clear (Not Simplistic) Communication

Plain Language Checklist for Clear (Not Simplistic) Communication

Funny enough, plain language editing is barely about the words.

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