What are Word Styles and how do you use them?

You can easily format text in Microsoft Word with the options you can see in your Home ribbon. You can … More

What Word style is your text is formatted in?

Here are six ways to check what Word style your text is in (the last two are my favourites): Six … More

Many editors prefer the features and power of Microsoft Word – especially when copyediting – over Google Docs and other … More

I recently found something better than PowerPoint’s usual ‘print Notes Pages’ format for printing out a presentation’s slides and notes … More

There are a couple of neat tricks you can use, but (naturally) they vary somewhat between PCs (I’m using Windows … More

It can be really useful to look at your Word document in two separate, independent windows. And it’s very simple, … More

A few months ago, I wrote about having trouble getting an author to see my tracked changes in Word (and … More

The time-consuming task of transcribing can be speeded up with technology or by outsourcing – as long as, in both … More

Let’s say you’ve created or edited a report – it’s all nicely laid out and you will be saving it … More

You’ll thank me for this one! As we know, writing and editing can involve checking a lot of facts, and … More

Have you noticed that when you google a search term you’ll often get a box with a summary of relevant … More

I’m insanely pleased to have discovered this, even though I don’t actually blog very often. But I could have used … More

This is my latest tips and tricks, written for the Editors Victoria newsletter. One of the funny things about working … More

I include a regular ‘Tips and tricks’ column in the Editors Victoria newsletter, linking to many online resources and tools. … More

As a bit of professional development, I’m taking a Stanford Uni MOOC – Writing in the Sciences. Week 1 done: … More