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The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading annual conference is one of the highlights of my editing year. This year was no exception, but it was a bit more nervewracking than usual as this year I was one of the speakers. Lydia Wanstall and I gave a presentation – Working with UN agencies and NGOs – on our experiences with working with the World Health Organization, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and other such agencies.
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This is a step-by-step guide to sorting lists by using Word's 'Sort' function. I keep shortcuts to some of Word’s table tools on my Quick Access Toolbar as I find that it’s often handy to be able to convert text into a table, and convert text that is in a table back into plain text.
There are a few ways to apply styles to text in your Word document: here I describe 4 ways to do this. As always, you might find that you find it more convenient to use different methods at different times. This post outlines 4 options for applying Word styles.
18/8/2021 Using tools that are built into Word in editing – part i: a tour of my QUick-Access ToolbarRead NowMost people have used Word, but how many people know how many tools there are built into Word and know how to 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 What is a Word Macro: 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.
All Word documents contain characters that you don't see when you're reading the document. 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.
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?
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.
Sue Littleford recently wrote about using checklists in editing for The CIEP blog. I use OneNote for my checklists: it’s handy as it’s available on all my devices and I get to tick jobs off as I do them. I have a folder for each of my clients with a client-specific checklist in each, and I add a new page for each job.
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