Description
This book is about how to rid a Word document of things that can get in the way of efficient editing and, importantly, of producing a good final publication, whether that’s in Word itself, in a layout program such as InDesign or as digital content. The techniques and tips in this book will help copyeditors to build a clean-up toolkit so that you waste less time wondering why Word is ‘misbehaving’, allowing you to focus on fixing the words.
Over 35 clean-ups described including:
- Fixing messy styles (or no styles)
- Replacing manual formatting (style overrides)
- Making bold and italic stick
- Sorting out wayward bulleted and numbered lists
- Converting text boxes to normal text
- Removing content controls
- Dealing with colours, patterns and lines
- Applying proper symbols, dashes and accents
PLUS learn how clean-up can speed up editing and increase your efficiency, helping you to define a clear structure and use powerful search tools to ensure consistency.
Details
Publisher - Daisy Makes Books
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Margaret Hunter
Published Date - 2025-09-13
ISBN - 9781919243702
Dimensions - 22.9 x 18.7 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 128
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