Question I’m desperate for advice on a 400+ PhD that is terribly unstable. The paragraph settings won’t work, table of contents won’t update, numbering system won’t stick – all sorts of trouble. Answer I've had similar problems, and can suggest a few things: Final...
A future with machines Should we be concerned about a future alongside AI? Does the future hold productivity gains or mass employment? We are only just starting to see how this new technology will affect our particular line of work. As an academic editor, it is...
In my previous blog post, I told you why and how I use Draft view for the documents I am not editing. In this blog I tell you how I set up my screen for the document I am editing. Hiding headers and footers I start by editing the document in Print Layout View because...
While I was doing my usual setup for editing, I wondered whether other people knew about the usefulness of Draft view for documents you are not editing. If you follow the instructions in this post, it displays in a monospaced font like the old typewriter fonts...
Did you know that odd-numbered pages should always be on the right in a printed book? Unfortunately, when Word shows two pages in Print Layout view, the odd-numbered pages are on the left and the even-numbered page is on the right, ie Word does not show the correct...
Question: I'm editing a document with many headings and sub-headings, only some of which have been taken up in the automatically created Table of Contents. How do I apply or remove the formatting that determines whether or not a heading is included in the automatic...
Reference list A reference list is a list of the books and other items referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix. It can be in alphabetical or numerical order, and should give the author, title, date and source of the referenced items in enough...
To omit the label and number from a List of Tables or Figures in Microsoft Word, go to References > Table of Figures. The Tables and Figures dialog box pops up. Untick ‘Include label and number’ at bottom left in the dialog box, as shown below: Published on: Oct...
Sometimes you need to remove your name from Track Changes after you have already made corrections. Go to Review > Compare > Compare. Browse for the original document and the revised document. Select the name you want to ‘Label the changes with’ (eg Editor, as...
You can insert an emoji into emails and computer text by pressing the Windows key + a period (dot/full stop) and then selecting it from the popup panel. Published on:Â Oct 11, 2024 at 08:54 32 words
Use a Unicode fraction generator tool Mike Leisegang very kindly shared this discovery with the PEGforum group as follows. I was challenged this morning to insert fractions into a thesis I am editing. The line looked like this, which was rather ugly: …radial symmetry...
Perfect 6 now accommodates Mac users better PerfectIt Cloud has significant improvements, including: Improved reliability when working with larger documents. Updated styles to ensure you’re always working with the latest editorial standards. Fresh branding and design...
PNG is better for images like logos because you can have transparent areas on PNG images. They are also slightly better if you are going to compress an image for online use, as they hold their quality and sharpness better. JPGs are a better choice for photos and...
The following information originated in a PEGforum thread called Driven mad by Word, which started on Thursday 30 May 2024 at 10:51:09, more or less like this: Q: Hello PEG Word Wizards, I’m editing a book that needs to be in UK English but it keeps reverting to US...
(The instructions are intended as guidelines and apply to Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124 64-bit) for Windows 11. Details may differ slightly for other versions.) In my first blog post, I shared my 14-step formatting...
Professional editors are, by definition, Microsoft Word power users because we spend 90% of our time wrangling texts into submission in this specific word-processing software. But did you know that Microsoft has another free collection of utilities, apps, tools, toys...
When a friend was retrenched and asked me what you need to set yourself up as a freelance proofreader or editor, I mentally went through the tools I use and gave her a rundown. It occurred to me that the list might be useful to others. So here it is: A desk of your...
We have all met the development of ChatGPT with a mixture of interest, awe, distrust and mild hysteria. What an incredible feat that a group of software engineers have created generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can mine information in the digital public...
PerfectIt is a customisable software program offered by Intelligent Editing to check many kinds of consistency: spelling, abbreviations, quotation marks, capitalisation... Since the application of consistency is at the core of all editing, it is an essential tool for...
If you have a very old laptop, with an old operating system and drivers you haven't updated in forever, don't bother with Office 2021: your laptop won’t be able to handle it. If you have a newer laptop, then 2021 will probably be the last version you can own outright...