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Spelling Errors in Titles and Headings

Last year I was editing a report for a major international consulting organization. There were several co-authors, and the review...

When Automatic Footnote Renumbering Fails in Word

This should not happen, because Word automatically renumbers the remaining footnotes if a footnote is deleted. I have experienced this...

The Serendipitous Pleasures of Work-Related Googling

I spend a lot of time Googling while editing; it's an integral part of working with scientific material. To speed up the search, I use...

Macro: Intelligent Single to Double Quotes Conversion

What the Macro Does I felt the need for this macro when I was working on a UK book that had to be converted to US style. I found myself...

The Case of the Sticky Figure

It seemed simple enough. The style called for figure captions to be placed above figures (in fact, they were even called figure titles),...

The Case of the Jumping Table

The deadline was near, and I had to copy a table the author had sent into the main document. A routine task—except that the table would...

Word Count for a Selection in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word bristles with useful keyboard shortcuts. Many are well known, but some obscure shortcuts deserve to be rescued from...

Feather Touch Editing