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...
Lists of tables and figures – How do I exclude the label and number?
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...
Track Changes – How do I make them anonymous?
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...
Language, UK or US – How to set it permanently
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...
Formatting before editing 3: Figure and table captions
(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...
(Power)Toys for Editors
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...