Monthly Archives: March 2004

Object Browser

By Jack Lyon | Published: March 24, 2004

Have you ever wished you had a way to move quickly from one footnote to the next in Word? How about from one edit to the next? One heading to the next? If so, you need to know about Word’s Object Browser, which is poorly documented but richly useful. The Object Browser lives at the […]

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Two Up

By Jack Lyon | Published: March 17, 2004

As a book editor, I often want to see the pages of a book I’m working on as “two up”–that is, two pages at a time, side by side on my screen. This is easily done in Print Preview, of course: 1. Click “File > Print Preview.” 2. Click the “Multiple Pages” button–it’s green and […]

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Section Breaks

By Jack Lyon | Published: March 10, 2004

In this final installment of how to set up book pages for publishing, we look at section breaks in Microsoft Word. Section breaks let you do a number of things. The most important ones for our purposes are: * Restart page numbers from section to section–between front matter and chapters, for example. * Restart footnote […]

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Setting Up Headers and Footers

By Jack Lyon | Published: March 3, 2004

After you’ve set up the pages of your book (as explained in the last newsletter), you’ll need to set up headers and footers. Using Microsoft Word, you might think you’d find headers and footers under the Insert menu. Not so; they’re under View. Why? Because your document *already* includes headers and footers. Every Word document […]

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