tips – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Does an acronym have to spell a word?

TL;DR no. But technically, an acronymn is made up of the initials that make up a term and turns out

Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing

What to do when you discover someone else’s content used without credit.

Funny enough, plain language editing is barely about word choice, and is never about “dumbing down.”

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

In the free Acrobat Reader, changing the properties of a group of markup is a snap. Actually, this works in

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

You learn a lot over your career. I had a mentor save me from some of these fails. You can

Tips and limits for taking an editing test: Reblogged at ACES from my How To column at the now-defunct Copyediting.com.

Comments, and how to reply to them in Word. Who doesn’t know this? Read, and see what you didn’t know.