Monthly Archives: January 2001

Microsoft Word provides several keyboard shortcuts to help you move around a document, which is important when you’re serious about editing efficiently. You may not know, however, that Word includes commands to move from sentence to sentence–highly useful for an editor! The commands aren’t mentioned in Word’s Help file, and they’re not assigned to any […]

As you’ve edited various manuscripts, you’ve probably noticed the propensity of some authors to type headings in all caps, as I’ve done with the title of this article. This holdover from the days of typewriting is, to put it bluntly, bad practice. Why? Because in typesetting or desktop publishing, putting a heading in all caps […]

After reading our last newsletter, subscriber Debby English wrote: “In your latest issue, ‘Creating New Documents,’ you mentioned that you have modified Word’s built-in invoice template. I would like to do the same but cannot find it in my Word template directory. Can you give me a clue about where it might be and what […]

In our past few newsletters, we’ve been talking about templates–attaching them, creating them, and so on. There’s still one area we haven’t talked about: creating *new* documents based on existing templates. If you’re an editor, you may be thinking, “I usually work on documents someone else has created.” True enough. However, as an editor you […]

It’s midnight at the publishing house. All the cubicles are dark–except one in the back corner, where a frazzled production editor struggles to finish formatting a 700-page book that’s due at press in eight short hours. Can’t we do something to help? As we’ve seen in our newsletters the past few weeks, Microsoft Word documents […]