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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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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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21/3/2021

Checklists

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​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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16/3/2021

'I’ll never get my head around macros and wildcards'

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'I’ll never get my head around macros and wildcards!' I hear this quite a lot and, I have to confess, I have to make sure that I only sigh on the inside. I hope that having read my Macro baby steps posts that you will realise almost everyone who uses a computer to edit (or proofread) text should be able to install and/or record at least a few simple macros. I am equally convinced that most editors could keep a list of handy wildcards to use on occasions. But, people talk about these things as if macros and wildcards are essentially the same thing – which they are not –  and as if they are equally baffling, whereas, in fact, they are quite different and making use of each needs a different set of skills. 

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2/3/2021

How to edit a macro

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In Macro baby steps part ii – Recording your own macros, I mentioned that macros can be edited. In fact, being able to edit macros is one of the great things about them, so it’s quite useful to understand enough about how macros work to have the confidence to tweak your own macros – and other people’s.

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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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