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Make the Most of Spellcheck, Part 6

Grammar checking: troubled waters but big improvements for Word’s spellcheck. And now, with the introduction of “Editor” in Word 365

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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

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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

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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

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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

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It’s about More Than –our, Eh? Canadian Spelling Update

It’s about More Than –our, Eh? Canadian Spelling Update

Author of the latest guide to Canadian spelling, Elizabeth d’Anjou, talks to me today about what she found out when

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Society for the preservation of Canadian spelling

Society for the preservation of Canadian spelling

My guest post today appears on the Editors’ Weekly, the blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada. In “This Book

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Styling Decisions — word choice and punctuation

Some people argue that using American spelling will open up a whole new market for their book. I don’t know

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Spelling Wars—Why can’t Canadians simplify? (podcast)

Webster set out to simplify spelling when he wrote his American dictionary. Why do Canadians cling to complicated rules and

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