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Tips about editing with Microsoft Word

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Yesterday I ran a seminar about editing with Microsoft Word. Thank you to everyone who paid to come, and to the Editors' Association executives and staff who organized it.

I've set up a page about that workshop, and will be updating it occasionally—especially if I end up doing more workshops like it. The latest info includes some links to online resources about Word, and here they are again:

• Top 12 Word Tips from Walter Glenn, author of the reference book I recommended, Word 2000 in a Nutshell
• The weblog of Rick Schaut of Microsoft's Mac Office team (tips apply to Windows versions as well):
  • Word's strange paragraph-deleting behaviour
  • Taking advantage of "different first page" features
  • How styles work (nastily complicated!)
  • Using styles structurally
• Chris Pratley of Microsoft's Windows Office team also has a weblog (and his tips apply to Mac versions as well):
  • How Word won the war
  • Where did Mr. Clippy come from?
• Word Tips for Editors, a newsletter from Inera, Inc.
• Microsoft resources:
  • Word 2002 Tips and Tricks and Word 2000 Tips and Tricks
  • Technical Publishing With Microsoft Word
  • Using Word X for Mac (includes tips and in-depth articles); there is also a similar page for Office 2001 for Mac
  • General Word Assistance (focused on the latest version)

While we covered a lot of material yesterday, we also didn't get to some of what I wanted to talk about. These links help cover some of that stuff, as well as a lot I never intended to address.

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