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On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

This is a wonderful story from the People's Archive of Rural India about a bookseller who cannot read. Selling books is not just a trade...

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

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

This email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...

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...

Shot on July 8, 2015.

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...

Twelve years ago, I emailed a friend, congratulating him on his impending marriage. A few days later, we spoke, and he questioned my use...