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Keep the Tracked Changes in Pasted Text

Keep the Tracked Changes in Pasted Text

It’s easy to paste text with tracked changes in MS Word 365 (2016) for Mac or Windows. Watch the demo here or see the 4

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How to Use the Windows Version of MS Word, for Mac Users

How to Use the Windows Version of MS Word, for Mac Users

Are you facing a Windows computer with panic? Not to fear, the quick tutorial below will set you in the right direction. Thankfully, the Word

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Proofreader’s Marks

Proofreader’s Marks

Proofreaders mark up printers’ proofs with symbols to indicate corrections that need to be made. The are by no means standard. A look at what

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Three reasons editors and proofreaders need to buy a PDF editor, and only three

Three reasons editors and proofreaders need to buy a PDF editor, and only three

There are a few things that the free Adobe Reader XI PDF software cannot do. But only a few. For most editorial markup, the free

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Stamps: Acrobat Tips for Proofreader’s Markup of PDFs

Stamps: Acrobat Tips for Proofreader’s Markup of PDFs

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

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Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF

Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF

Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo showing how to mark up

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Intro to Advanced Acrobatics

Intro to Advanced Acrobatics

This handout is from my presentation at the EAC 2014 conference. Get a printable PDF version here. Mark up any file you can print to/save

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The argument for making changes silently, not tracking them

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 few common concerns about this:

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Create a Word file from a PDF

Create a Word file from a PDF

You might need to convert a PDF back to text to get a word count, to create the next addition when source files have been

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Reading List: Starter kit for freelance editors

Reading List: Starter kit for freelance editors

This blog now has dozens of posts that will help the new starter. Click the Starter Kit for Editors category to see them all, or

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