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.

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.

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

What are Word Styles and how do you use them?

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

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

Tips and tricks: A better way to print out your PowerPoint presentation

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

Tips and tricks: Using your screen’s hot spots

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

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

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.

Tips and tricks: Transcribing interviews

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

Tips and tricks: Search all your open browser tabs or bookmarked pages

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

Tips and tricks: Google My Business

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

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

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