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...
Graphs are commonly used in technical reports to show trends and relationships. They can convey a wealth of information in a compact and easily understandable format. However, as with all parts of a technical document,...
The word "sanction" has two seemingly opposite meanings, and it belongs to a category of English words called contronyms. A contronym is a word with two meanings that happen to be the opposite of each other. It is...
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: Oct 11, 2024 at 08:54 32 words
First check your style guide and follow that if you can. If the country has changed its name, list its publications under their names as they appear in the source (including any spelling mistakes! But put a [sic] after...
I think the difference between redundancy and tautology is the following: Redundancy Redundancy is careless repetition, without any stylistic or rhetorical meaning, that can be seen as a thoughtless language error or...
PEG's financial year runs from March to February. Published on: Aug 16, 2024 at 08:40 12 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...
The correct usage is always: (this) kind of vehicle BUT (those) kinds of vehicles (this) type of plant BUT (those) types of plants (this) sort of question BUT (those) sorts of questions Although the mixture of singular...
An American Psychological Association blog has very useful advice about how to cite and keep records of ChatGPT advice. Posted Aug 11, 2024 at 00:10 23 words
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...
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'Femininity' relates to characteristics that are socially constructed, things people have decided about what it means to be feminine, such as meekness or the colour pink. 'Femaleness' is biological. Female refers to...
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...
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...
Have you also had sleepless nights about sentences such as these? What do you think of his deciding to go? What do you think of him deciding to go? I always wonder if I know enough about gerunds and how to edit them...
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One of the services an editor offers is checking that all items in the reference list are cited in the text and that all citations in the text are included in the reference list. This can be quite tricky and...
This controversial information comes from a PEGforum thread, "naming conventions for flora and fauna - cape nature", that started on Tuesday 7 May 2024 at 12:56:22. (Note that Cape Nature is legally CapeNature.) The...