Apr 29, 2023LANGUAGEThe Copyeditor as Word Detective: Using Lookalikes and Soundalikes to Crack Word PuzzlesDuring the course of their work, academic copyeditors often meet strange words. An online search with keywords drawn from the context of...
Feb 27, 2023MICROSOFT WORDThe Case of the Sticky BackgroundI'm not sure when I began to chafe at the white background in MS Word documents. I think it was when dark mode began spreading like...
Oct 16, 2022EDITINGCopying Text with Tracked Changes in MS WordI had to deal with this problem when I copied and pasted a chapter from a book into a new document, only to discover that the tracked...
Oct 13, 2022MICROSOFT WORDThe Case of the Line That Would Not GoA misplaced horizontal line in an MS Word document I was editing had to go. The problem was that it stubbornly dug its heels in and...