Monthly Archives: June 2004

Editing by Concordance

Our previous newsletter mentioned our WordCounter program, which can now tell you how many times each word has been used in a document–and I promised to show you how that might be useful for editing. The newsletter also featured a macro that will create a concordance, or list of all words used, from a Word […]

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Making a Concordance

Have you ever needed to make a list of every word in a document? If so, here’s a macro that will do it for you automatically. Basically, the macro marks an index entry for every word in your document, generates the index, and removes the page numbers, leaving you with an alphabetical list of words […]

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Numbers by Chicago, Part 2

Our previous article outlined a fairly lengthy Find and Replace routine to make sure inclusive (elided) numbers follow the style outlined in the Chicago Manual. Astute reader Andrew Lockton responded with a technique that is so important, it deserves a second article. Andrew suggested taking the “Find What Expression” wildcard, which takes the form 1, […]

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Numbers by Chicago

I recently worked on a manuscript with lots of source citations, many of which had page numbers formatted like this: 122-123 I prefer the shorter style recommended in the Chicago Manual of Style (8.69): 122-23 And besides, the manuscript was inconsistent, sometimes using one style, sometimes the other. Not wanting to fix all of these […]

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