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Tag: MS Word

Add a custom tab to your Word ribbon

I gave an informal talk today to science editors about using macros, but it was my very first tip that generated the most excitement: You can add a new tab to the Word ribbon! Here’s how.

#Shortcuts, macros, MS Word, tips

Create a table of contents using Word Styles

Creating a table of contents in Word is super easy if you have applied styles to your headings.

MS Word, Styles, tips, writing

Use Word Styles for navigating around and restructuring your document

Word Styles offer more than simply and consistently formatting text; they give you lots of power in organising your whole … More

MS Word, Styles, tips, writing

What are Word Styles and how do you use them?

MS Word, Styles, tips, writing

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

MS Word, Styles, tips, writing

Microsoft Word skills for editors: basic to advanced

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

MS Word, tips

Tips and tricks: Opening your Word document in multiple windows

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

MS Word, tips

Tips and tricks: Summarising tracked changes in Word

Four ways to show your Track Changes edits in MS Word – so your client (or collaborator) won’t overlook key editing changes or queries when they review the document.

MS Word, tips

Tips and tricks: Post to your blog directly from Word

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

MS Word, tips, WordPress

Editing Indigenous content and other tips

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

business, DIY, MS Word, tips

Review: Lots of tips and procedures for better onscreen editing

I wrote this review for the Editors Victoria newsletter. The title of Geoff Hart’s book Effective Onscreen Editing (3rd edition) … More

Geoff Hart, macros, MS Word, templates, tips, Track Changes

Margie Beilharz is a freelance editor, writer and science communicator in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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