How to Clean Up a Messy Word Document

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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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