Monthly Archives: August 2002

Ideal Software

By Jack Lyon | Published: August 28, 2002

With some customization, Microsoft Word makes a pretty good tool for editing. The fact that it can be customized, in fact, is one of its finest features. I also like its use of styles, spell-checking, wildcard Find and Replace, and notes. There are also plenty of things I *don’t* like, including Word’s general “bugginess” and […]

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Automated Letter-by-Letter Index Sorting

By Jack Lyon | Published: August 21, 2002

Last week’s newsletter explained how to sort Word’s index entries letter by letter rather than word by word: Using "Found" Macros But it didn’t explain how to do it in an automated way. So here’s an automated way, using wildcard Find and Replace. You can learn more about using wildcards in some of our past […]

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Sorting Index Entries Letter by Letter

By Jack Lyon | Published: August 14, 2002

If you’ve used Microsoft Word’s Index feature, you know that Word alphabetizes index entries word by word, like this: New Deal New World Newborn News release Most indexers and publishers, however, prefer to sort index entries letter by letter, like this: Newborn New Deal News release New World Is there a way to get Word […]

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Glorious Color

By Jack Lyon | Published: August 8, 2002

In the past, I’ve recommended using your own template to apply to documents you’re editing. This allows you to use a typeface that’s easy to read on your monitor, offers plenty of differentiation between double and single quotation marks, and has a long em dash, a medium-sized en dash, and a short hyphen (so you […]

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