Author Archives: Jack Lyon

I get manuscripts with all kinds of weird formatting, but recently I got one from which all formatting had been removed. That might have been all right, but the note reference numbers were no longer superscript; they all looked something like this.42 I wasn’t about to fix all those by hand, so I came up […]

Last week’s newsletter provided a style sheet that editors can use to keep track of style decisions while editing in Microsoft Word. If you didn’t get that style sheet, you can download it here: http://www.editorium.com/ftp/stylesheet.zip Hilary Powers was kind enough to provide her StyleThat macro in last week’s newsletter, and this week I’ve adapted that […]

Boilerplate is text you can use over and over again as needed. For example, the Fine Print section of this newsletter is boilerplate. Here’s a little-known but useful way to create boilerplate in Microsoft Word: 1. Create a new document to hold all of your boilerplate text. 2. Paste your boilerplate text into it (obviously […]

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 […]

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 […]