Monthly Archives: September 2000

More Hidden Secrets

Last week we talked about using Hidden formatting to make sure a list sorts properly. But Hidden formatting is useful for other things as well. Let’s say you’re editing a scholarly book with dozens of block quotations from old journals. The author has consistently misspelled several geographical and personal names, so you fire up our […]

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Hidden Articles

In our last newsletter, we talked about how to work with lists. You can read the newsletter here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1702467672. I presented the following list of book titles, noting that I’d removed the initial “The” from The Old Man and the Sea and The Great Gatsby so they’d sort properly: To Kill a Mockingbird Jane Eyre […]

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Working with Lists

In my other life I work at a publishing house, so quite often I compile and edit lists of book titles, authors, type specs–all kinds of things. (I just finished putting together a list of nearly 1,400 book titles for a giant electronic publishing project.) A typical list looks like this: To Kill a Mockingbird […]

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Print What?

Recently a Microsoft Word user asked me, “Is there an easy way to print the names and descriptions of the styles I’m using in my document?” Fortunately, there is. Here’s the procedure: 1. Click the File menu. 2. Click “Print.” 3. Click the “Print what” box at the lower left of the Print dialog box. […]

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