Category Archives: Lyonizing Word

Listing Keyboard Shortcuts: Two Methods

By Jack Lyon | Published: November 3, 2022

By Jack Lyon, the Editorium As useful as custom keyboard shortcuts may be in using Microsoft Word, it’s sometimes difficult to remember which keys you’ve assigned to what function. Word itself includes one way to find out: Click File > Print. Under "Settings," select "Key Assignments: List of your custom shortcut keys": Select the printer […]

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Lyonizing Word: Before Typesetting

By americaneditor | Published: August 22, 2016

by Jack Lyon I need your help, Gentle Reader. I need your ideas. Back in 1996, when I started selling Microsoft Word add-ins at the Editorium, getting a Word document into QuarkXPress was tricky: Quark was prone to crashes and didn’t handle footnotes at all. To solve these problems, I created QuarkConverter, and NoteStripper. A few […]

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Lyonizing Word: Inside Notes

By americaneditor | Published: July 18, 2016

by Jack Lyon As useful as they are, Microsoft Word’s footnotes and endnotes are amazingly easy to mess up. Let’s look at some ways that can happen — and how to fix the problems. First, we need to open a document that has footnotes — or make one. Then, to really see what’s going on, […]

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Lyonizing Word: Using the “Find What Expression” Wildcard

By americaneditor | Published: May 2, 2016

by Jack Lyon Rich Adin recently sent me an interesting challenge. He was using his EditTools Journal feature to mark journal titles in references. The power behind that useful tool comes from lists of incorrectly styled references with corresponding correctly styled references. He creates a separate list for each reference style. The list he sent me […]

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Lyonizing Word: But Which Styles?

By americaneditor | Published: March 21, 2016

Which paragraph styles do you want to use? If you’re writing a simple business letter, the only style you may need is Word’s default of Normal. But if you’re editing a book, things immediately become much more complicated. Consider: What different kinds of text exist in a book?

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Lyonizing Word: Taming Styles in Microsoft Word

By americaneditor | Published: February 29, 2016

Styles are very useful. The problem is that Microsoft Word, in its usual “helpful” way, tries to manage which styles are available, in which document, and how those styles can be accessed. Finally growing tired of this nonsense, I decided to take the matter firmly in hand by writing this article, with the intent to solve the problems as I do so.

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Lyonizing Word: Why Computers?

By americaneditor | Published: November 18, 2015

by Jack Lyon Dan A. Wilson, of The Editor’s Desktop, once advised editors that a computer is “far and away your most valuable tool, your ultimate enabler, your brain’s second-in-command. A brain with a pencil in its hand cannot compete — indeed, cannot even credibly challenge — a brain with a computer and computer-sophistication at […]

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Lyonizing Word: Secrets of the Ribbon

By americaneditor | Published: October 19, 2015

There are secrets to using Word’s Ribbon interface. In this essay, we explore a few of them.

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Lyonizing Word: But Wait—There’s More!

By americaneditor | Published: September 30, 2015

Microsoft Word’s find and replace features can do an awful lot — much more than you might think. Do you know about the options? “Ignore punctuation characters” and “Ignore white-space characters,” for example, can be very useful in editing. Being able to find and replace formatting is essential, especially when using styles. And using Word’s built-in codes lets you search for all kinds of things (graphics, page breaks, dashes, and so on) that would otherwise require more advanced techniques (like wildcards and numeric codes). In other words, Microsoft Word’s basic find and replace features aren’t so basic — at least not in what they can do!

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Lyonizing Word: Assigning Macro Shortcut Keys

By americaneditor | Published: August 31, 2015

Learning how to assign keyboard combinations to macros may seem like a small thing, but small things add up to greater editing efficiency, and that means more money in your pocket and less time at work, both of which are big things.

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