Styles is the Home ribbon group where some of Word’s mightiest power lies. Applying Styles is easy, but the tools they unlock are some of the best in Word. Below you’ll find a roundup of posts explaining the best practices for using Styles specifically in an editorial production workflow. These posts build on top of the explanations and guides found in the multimedia guide to Editing In Word 365.
Continue reading Home Ribbon Review: Styles GroupRounding up posts on the third grouping on the Home ribbon includes one of the most powerful tools: the pilcrow button. Below you’ll find a roundup of posts relating to this grouping in Word’s ribbon, explaining the best practices of using those tools specifically in an editorial production workflow. These posts build on top of the explanations and guides found in the multimedia guide to Editing In Word 365.
Continue reading Home Ribbon Review: Paragraph GroupMoving to the second grouping on the Home ribbon, we continue our roundup of posts relating to each part of Word’s ribbons, explaining the best practices of using them specifically in an editorial production workflow. These posts build on top of the explanations and guides found in the multimedia guide to Editing In Word 365.
Continue reading Home Ribbon Review: Font GroupHere we begin our roundup of posts relating to each part of Word’s ribbons, explaining the best practices of using them in specifically in an editorial production workflow. These posts build on top of the explanations and guides found in the multimedia guide to Editing in Word 365.
Continue reading Home Ribbon Review: Clipboard GroupQI moved a file to another computer and Word says it’s locked for editing and won’t let me do anything with it!
Continue reading Q&A: Why is my file locked for editing?QI find it hard to look at tracked changes; can editors use another method?
AIt’s an interesting question, and one that gives me feels, it seems. TL;DR — No! Don’t make other professionals put up with awkward kludges to assuage some initial discomfort. You get used to it, and let me share some better ways to ease the pain.
With the introduction of the Editor pane, Word changed the look of Spellcheck. But you can still access the classic Spellcheck interface by adding it to the Quick Access Toolbar! You can see that at the very top of the image above.
Here’s how:
Continue reading Launch Classic SpellcheckQHow can I find all the hyperlinks in a document?
AThere’s actually a RegEx for this (a “regular expression”). Type ^d in the Find field.
Continue reading Q&A: Finding Hyperlinks in Word“Modern Comments” are rolling out to subscribed Windows users and Word for Web rather like a steam roller over rubber duckies. This new MS Word “feature” is interrupting workflow for many and may render some functions inside them inoperable (such as autocomplete and search). Here’s what to expect:
Continue reading Changes Coming to Comments in Word
Word lets you extract a summary of comments and markup in the Print dialog. You can either create a PDF or a paper copy.
Continue reading Extracting Comments and Markup from a Word Manuscript
