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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 Jumping Cursor

I edit PDF documents using Acrobat Reader DC, a free tool. It generally works flawlessly, but which complex piece of software is bug...

Agent Ransack for Multi-Folder Search: A Tutorial

The books I edit arrive as separate Word files, one for each chapter. I cannot recall ever receiving a book as a single file. For one...

Feather Touch Editing