• Login
Membership Payments
  • Home
  • About
  • Become a member
    • Information
    • Applications
    • Renewals
    • Payments
  • Find an expert
    • Expert search
    • Job submission
    • Indexers, Bibliographers
  • Mentoring
  • Webinars
  • Events
  • Accreditation
    • Accreditation
    • PEGbites
  • Resources
    • Affiliated organisations
    • Contributor guidelines
    • CPD
    • Editorial aids
    • Email Signatures
    • FAQs
    • Formatting tips
    • Freelancing tips
    • Indexing Tips
    • PEG e-guides
    • PEG e-groups
    • PEG guides
    • PEG Style Guide
    • PEGboard
    • Sample contracts and letters
    • Sitemap
    • Tools of the trade
    • Training providers
  • PEGblog
  • Contact us
PEG 30+ Logo
  • Home
  • About
  • Become a member
    • Information
    • Applications
    • Renewals
    • Payments
  • Find an expert
    • Expert search
    • Job submission
    • Indexers, Bibliographers
  • Mentoring
  • Webinars
  • Events
  • Accreditation
    • Accreditation
    • PEGbites
  • Resources
    • Affiliated organisations
    • Contributor guidelines
    • CPD
    • Editorial aids
    • Email Signatures
    • FAQs
    • Formatting tips
    • Freelancing tips
    • Indexing Tips
    • PEG e-guides
    • PEG e-groups
    • PEG guides
    • PEG Style Guide
    • PEGboard
    • Sample contracts and letters
    • Sitemap
    • Tools of the trade
    • Training providers
  • PEGblog
  • Contact us
  • Home
  • About
  • Find an expert
  • Become a member
  • Payments
  • Resources
  • Login
  • Contact

proofreading

proofreading

Hiding headers and footers and scrolling in two-page view: Do you know how useful these functions are?

Hiding headers and footers and scrolling in two-page view: Do you know how useful these functions are?

by Carmen Botman | 22 April, 2025 | Editing and proofreading, Editing tools and software, Microsoft Word, PEGblog

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...
Edit or proofread? How to manage your impulses

Edit or proofread? How to manage your impulses

by Carmen Botman | 1 April, 2025 | Editing and proofreading, PEGblog

PEG’s website has a nifty visual and FAQs for clients, which explain the difference between a proofread and an edit. I realised recently that, as editors, we may need to check our understanding too. In this blog, I share with you my thoughts on the difference between...
The loneliness of the long-distance editor

The loneliness of the long-distance editor

by Alexis Grewan | 3 February, 2025 | Editing and proofreading, PEGblog

Shortly after I started editing seriously, I told a friend what I was doing and he asked, ‘Don’t you find it lonely?’ I was surprised by the question, because that hadn’t occurred to me, and he was surprised by my answer: ‘No.’ In this article, I share my personal...
4 rules for editors to stay in check and out of trouble

4 rules for editors to stay in check and out of trouble

by Carmen Botman | 21 May, 2024 | Editing and proofreading, PEGblog, Professionalism, Proofreading tips

I signed up for a grammar course. I know my English isn’t perfect and I can edit fairly well, but I also know that if someone asked me to explain each and every edit, I wouldn’t be able to do that effectively. I cannot always label all the rules or reasons for my...
What is this thing called ‘style’?

What is this thing called ‘style’?

by Carmen Botman | 9 April, 2024 | Editing and proofreading, Language, PEGblog, Writing

I have written this brief piece in response to an enquiry from a respected language practitioner colleague who was asking which of the meanings of ‘skryfwyse’ the English word ‘style’ best conveys, if any at all. My starting point was Bosman, Van der Merwe and...
« Older Entries

Recent Posts

  • Balancing heart and craft with thoughtful feedback
  • ‘That’ – When is it unnecessary?
  • Social media marketing for editors – an update continued
  • Long/unstable/corrupted Word doc – How can I fix it?
  • Social media marketing for editors – an update 1

Recent Comments

No comments to show.
  • Home
  • About
  • Become a member
  • Find an expert
  • Mentoring
  • Events
  • Accreditation
  • PEGblog
  • Sitemap
  • Contact us
  • Membership payments
  • Login
  • Follow
  • Follow
NEaT Logo
ciep Logo

Copyright © Professional Editors’ Guild 2025 | All rights reserved | PEG is a non-profit company.

Privacy statement | PAIA manual | Cookie policy

Website designed and developed by Digital Trails Web Design

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}