Tag Archives: Word 365

Insert Ribbon Review: Pages Group

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For extensive detailed instructions on using breaks in a document, see Sections 9 & 43 of the book or sign up for the Essentials course!

The Pages group* on the Insert ribbon is where to turn to instead of repeatedly hitting enter to start a new page. And it does more! Below you’ll find a roundup of posts explaining the best practices for using breaks 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.

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Home Ribbon Review: Styles Group

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For extensive detailed instructions on using Styles, see the weighty Sections 11 & 38 of the book or sign up for the Essentials course!

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.

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Home Ribbon Review: Paragraph Group

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For more detailed instructions on using the buttons in the Clipboard group, see Sections 9, 20 & 26 of the book, or sign up for the Essentials course!

Rounding 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.

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Home Ribbon Review: Font Group

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For more detailed instructions on using the buttons in the Font group, see Sections 10, 36, 37 & 41 of the book, or sign up for the Essentials course!

Moving 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.

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Home Ribbon Review: Clipboard Group

a map "locator pin" styled as the MS Word logo
For more detailed instructions on using the buttons in the Clipboard group, see Sections 7, 9, and 11 of the book, or sign up for the Essentials course!

Here 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.

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Brain Hacks for Editing Work That’s Too-Familiar

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:

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Learn to Make the Most of Word

Do 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:

cover of Essentials: Editing in Word 365

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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