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Word comes with built-in keyboard shortcuts for many of its commands, and using these can often be quicker than using the keyboard or the mouse – if you can remember the key combinations! I've listed some of the most useful shortcuts here. Do let me know if I've forgotten any or if any of them don't work for you! Document management Navigation Selecting text Applying styles Applying direct formatting Editing actions Find and replace Tracked changes and Word comments Useful characters You can assign your own keyboard shortcuts to Word commands that you use a lot, or to macros. This blog post – How to set up a keyboard shortcut – explains how to do it.
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In a previous post, I explained how to create a list of abbreviations in a table to check against the list in the footnotes. Sometimes, the tables in the documents I'm sent don't have lists of the abbreviations used and their definitions and I have to create that list myself. This post explains how I do this.
I often have to create of check that the lists of abbreviations and their definitions given in table legends or footnotes are complete – and this is how I do it.
In a previous post, I mentioned a document that I had edited that used EndNote, which, the authors had confidently reassured me, meant that the references would cause me no problems, and it turned out, to no one's surprise, that a few issues had cropped up. This post describes one of the issues – and it was one that I hadn't anticipated.
I talked about some of the common issues in EndNote that can lead to the reference list not being styled quite correctly in this post: EndNote: What to watch out for when you're editing. Another thing to check in your EndNote reference list is that all the journal names are abbreviated correctly, or not abbreviated at all, as this is something that can go wrong.
"You shouldn't have any problems with the references – we used EndNote" This was the slightly optimistic comment that arrived with a large document that had, indeed, been referenced using EndNote. Now, although using EndNote for references does have many benefits, you won't be surprised to know that there are a variety of ways that errors can creep in. I'm going to tell you about some of the common problems that I've come across.
Have you ever been sent a document where the author has used EndNote to add the references and you're not sure where to start? Here are a few tips to get you going.
I thought I'd write a quick post about Word's field codes. I'm not claiming to be an expert in how they work or all their uses, but I do have an understanding of the basics – even though I have to look up the keyboard shortcuts associated with them every time!
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