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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.
EndNote is a reference management system that help you to organize and manage bibliographies and references to use in journal articles, theses and other documents that use references. It helps users collect, store and format references and citations in various styles.
In the journal articles or academic papers that I edit in Word, I sometimes have to renumber Vancouver-style references that are out of sequence in the text for one reason or another and consequently need to be renumbered. This task can’t be automated fully, but having a renumbering system in place, and reducing the amount of typing you have to do, will make the process less painful and error prone.
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.
How do you know which Word Style you're 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.
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.
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