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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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