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Professional Standards: Style Sheets

In addition to following the preferences of a style guide such as CMOS, CP or APA (or a dozen others), it is professional practice to

Editor [and] AI: The Ethics of Using AI

You would be incensed if spellcheck weren’t used as part of quality control, so why is using AI any different? Some questions, viewpoints and policies to consider are rounded up here.

Editor [and] AI: Wildcard Searches

In this edition of Editor Vs AI, I try to use ChatGPT-4 to write a wildcard search, and it does more harm than help. The

Edit Faster! Triage for the Eight-minute Editor

Sometimes there just isn’t time (or budget, or even commitment) to fix everything. Here are the edits (in order) that will help them avoid embarrassment and move the piece in the direction of perfection even if it can’t go all the way.

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

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.

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.

Word Tips Now Have Their Own Blog

Word-Wrangling Wednesday tips now have their own blog.

Thesaurus Magic in MS Word

Can’t figure out the writer’s intent? Thesaurus to the rescue! Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com I show you the ins and outs of MS

Context Menus—Productivity Boosters

The context menu is a handy productivity and learning tool in any computer program. Find out more in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Turbo boost your skills

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