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Question: When is it appropriate to drop the word 'that'? I am editing a book and the author dispenses with the use of the word 'that'. When is it appropriate to do so? I accessed the guide from Walden...
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...
Competence refers to a basic or minimal ability to do something. For example, in my performance contract, in addition to KPAs, ten competences are measured. This is a professional competence. Competency is the ability...
Question When there is a 'but' between two clauses, when do you need a comma and when not? Example (the context is narrative, not formal): 1. I walked down the same street, but this time I turned left. Here, the...
It's sometimes hard to decide how to treat cross-references and field names in running text, like instructions for using a program. Should they be in quotation marks, bolded, italicised, in a different colour or in...
“This is a sentence.” “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said. “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.” “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are...
Often the DOIs and URLs in a reference list create large, ugly gaps (especially if the list is justified) because they do not break nicely. The Online Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition - login required) recommends...
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...
Hiding white space (the top and bottom margins of your pages, which contain headers and footers) allows you to scroll faster through the document. You can hide and unhide the white space either at the top of the...
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...
A DOI is a digital object Identifier, which is a unique string of numbers, letters, and symbols that identifies a document or article and provides it with a permanent web address. An example is...
Referencing styles have usually been created by an organisation that specialises in a certain tyle of information, and the styles specify: how to arrange items in a reference list, eg in alphabetical or numerical order...
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,...
What is a live bibliography? A live bibliography or reference list has live hyperlinks (usually blue and underlined. If you click on it, the live link should take you to the web address where the reference is found)....
The useful advice in this FAQ about the steps and considerations when calculating a quotation for a project was contributed by several people from the wonderful resource of the PEGforum. Question I have been asked to...
Question Heléne van der Westhuizen asked: Are accurately, precisely and exactly interchangeable and are there context/nuance differences to be mindful of? Answers Oxford Dictionary Our Oxford dictionary defines the...
To find information on the current page, press Ctrl+f (Find) and enter the term you want in the popup textbox. To search the whole website, use the Search textbox at the top and bottom of every page. Tip: The textbox...
If you have been a member of the Professional Editors' Guild for less than a year, you can ask the PEG administrator for a letter to prove your membership to your clients. After you have been a member of PEG for more...
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...