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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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Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 4

Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 4

This time, we’re going to look at customizing the dictionaries used by spellcheck. In the previous posts, you learned about running and rerunning spellcheck as well

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Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 3

Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 3

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

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Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 2

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

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Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 1

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

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How to Set Word’s Language Preference for Spell Check

How to Set Word’s Language Preference for Spell Check

There are two places you need to set the language preference in MS Word: in Styles, and for each paragraph. Learn how in my How To column

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LOTW 4, 2015

LOTW 4, 2015

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: cat V editor, and some fur-less purring to make up for the asshole

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How New Words Catch On

How New Words Catch On

During the seasonal onslaught of retrospectives, Ben Zimmer predicted new words that 2015 will bring, and pondered why some never catch on. A great bit

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Links OTW, Aug 9–15

Links OTW, Aug 9–15

I had a really long waiting room stay this week, so I caught up on a reading backlog. Lucky you: there’s a lot of great

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“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

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

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