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 GroupThanks, I hate it!
Word’s latest unecessary change is to make what’s it’s calling “cards” for every tracked change. They’re just a version of the pop-ups we used to have but with added memory-sucking action.
Continue reading New Feature: Track Change “Cards”QI 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?Whether it’s your own writing, the nth look-through, or you’re doing all of the editing stages on a file, there comes a time when your eyes just can’t see what’s actually on the page anymore. Your brain compensates and autocorrects; that is NOT what we’re hoping for! Refresh your eyes and see what’s actually on the page by using these “brain hacks” that “special education” teachers shared with me. The audio below explains how and why these hacks work:
Continue reading Brain Hacks for Editing Work That’s Too-FamiliarOver on the Right Angels and Polo Bears blog, I’ve been testing the hot new AI out for editing. While it’s true that generative pretrained translators (GPTs) are advancing so fast that my post may be out of date by the time I edit it, the verdict remains that AI isn’t ready to take over copyediting jobs. In this post I find it can’t even write a useful Find & Replace sequence using wildcards. I’m sad about that, because writing those can be a brain twister!
Continue reading Using ChatGPT to Write Wildcard SearchesQ:The edit comment button has disappeared!
A:Look in the meatball menu.
Continue reading Q&A: How to edit Modern CommentsDo you even know what you don’t know? I didn’t!
I spent years, stumbling onto functions and tools in Word, then searching for hours to find out how to use them; skipping through long videos to find the 2 minutes that answered my question; wrapping my head around how what they said might apply to the publishing tasks and workflow.
There is an easier way!
That’s why I wrote Editing in Word. It might look like a book, but it’s really a self-study multimedia course tailored precisely to how editors can use Word to make it less painful and make their editing more effective and efficient.
And now there are two courses for editors with open start times. Learn what you want, when you need it, on your schedule and at your own pace:
These materials cut right to the chase, and show how these tools are used in the editing workflow for best practices in a publishing environment.
You don’t need Word 365 to follow these materials. There’s little variety across the versions of Word.
Both Mac and Windows instructions are provided in the lessons and in the video demos.
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