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15/12/2021

When I'm not at work ...

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For a change, this week has been eventful mostly because of things that have happened outside of work (and family) ... 
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Our solar panels have finally been connected to a battery and are now more than decorative – not sure that it's the time of year to assume that they will get us through the next power cut, but it's a start – and we had friends round for dinner for the first time in years.
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The following evening my friend and I went off to do our first open-mic evening at one of the local pubs. I play the piano and Laura sings, and we got "together" during the first lockdown to do some songs together. We each recorded our parts and then mixed the tracks together to get the finished product. We've been enjoying ourselves and the music (which we have managed to do in person a few times), and we thought we'd go and see if other people would enjoy listening to us. We managed to contain our nerves and the handful of songs that we played went down very well.
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We have been preparing a few songs to put on Spotify – they're quite chilled, so very suitable to listen to on a Friday evening after a busy week. Have a listen, and let me know what you think! Click here to listen.
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Post first published on LinkedIn on 12 November 2021. 

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16/10/2021

Word Styles: Four ways to apply styles

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There are a few ways to apply Word styles to your text. As always, you might find that you find it more convenient to use different methods at different times. This post outlines some of the options for applying Word styles.

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1/10/2021

Word Styles: How do I know what Style I’m using?

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How do I know which Word Style I'm using, or which Style has been used, for a particular piece of text? Here are four different ways of finding out which Word Style(s) are being used, with tips for tracking down the source of other text oddities.

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18/8/2021

Editing tools in a macro-free zone – part i – a tour of my QUick-Access Toolbar

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Most people have used Word, but how many people use all of its functions? Very few, I suspect. I imagine that I use more Word features than most but I am still discovering new features – some more useful than others. There are a lot of tools packed into Word and it takes some time to get to grips with them all. Editors spend a lot of time talking about macros and getting to grips with macros will increase the number of tasks you can automate (see my macro baby steps series if you want to take the plunge), but you can make your editing life a lot easier just by using the tools that are already built into Word.

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16/8/2021

Word: the characters you don't see

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​On your Word ribbon, tucked away at the top right-hand corner of the Paragraph group, you will find this symbol ¶. Hover your mouse over it, and it says “Show/Hide ¶ – Show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols”. Click on the symbol and all the “characters” that you don’t usually see appear. 

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5/8/2021

Word Styles: First steps with Word Styles

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Word Styles are one of Word’s (many) hidden secrets. Everyone who has used Word will have seen them – Styles is one of the biggest groups on the Ribbon – but apart from being able to  “mess” up your text with one accidental click, what do Word Styles actually do?

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6/7/2021

Working with PDFs

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We sometimes have to mark up PDFs for our clients, and this is a quite different process to working in Word. Ideally, you wouldn't want to do a full copy-edit on a PDF, but it's not unknown. Here are a few tips for working with PDFs.

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15/6/2021

Editing tools in the wild – part ii

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In Editing tools in the wild – part i I described the first few tasks in my initial editing process: document clean-up routines getting rid of all the unwanted spaces/carriage returns/tabs, applying heading levels to give my documents some structures, and carrying out an initial spell check. 

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    Andrea at Yours Truleigh Editing
    I'm an editor based on the south coast of the United Kingdom. I try and use the tools at my disposal to make the process of editing as effiicient and accurate as possible and I'm hoping to share some tips and techniques that I've picked up along the way. I'm an enthusiastic and grateful member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading. Editorial freelancers benefit hugely from being part of supportive organisations:  for direct support for our work, such as training and providing routes for our clients to find us, but also for community, which is needed now more than ever. 
    Please note: all Word tips are based on Word 365 for PC. 

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