Author Archives: Jack Lyon

This week I received the electronic manuscript of a book I’m going to edit–a collection of talks presented by various scholars at a symposium. Looking through the first talk, I noticed that the footnotes were a mess. The author had used Microsoft Word’s automatically numbering notes, sure enough, but then he’d typed a period after […]

If you’re like me, you love Microsoft Word’s note feature–in particular, being able to insert or delete a footnote or endnote and have all of the subsequent notes renumber automatically. Have you ever wondered, though, how to create a note reference number that refers to a note that already exists? For example, let’s say the […]

You’re typing along, and suddenly the short line you entered a couple of paragraphs earlier has turned big and bold. Who does it think it is, anyway? When you investigate, you discover that the line has somehow been formatted with Word’s Heading 1 style. You’ve just discovered one of the wonders of Word’s AutoFormat feature, […]

Here’s the scenario: You’ve just opened a new document from a client, and you italicize the first paragraph, which is a short quotation introducing the chapter. But suddenly *all* of the chapter text is italicized. What in the world is going on? You’ve just bumped into Word’s “Automatically update” feature for styles. (This is different […]

If you frequently use styles (which you should) to format your documents or specify text levels for typesetting, you’re probably aware that you can press CTRL + SHIFT + S to activate the style list. (Then you can scroll through the list to get the style you need.) You may not be aware, however, that […]