by admin | Nov 26, 2020 | Making of an editor, Microsoft Word
Indian Copyeditors Forum has been conducting a weekly webinar series on various topics related to editing. As part of this series, I recently conducted an online session on using wild cards in MS Word. In this 2-hour-long session, I introduced the various wild card...
by admin | Aug 5, 2016 | Copyediting, Tools of Trade
I talked about it already (here). Without doubt, the find-and-replace option is a handy tool for a copy editor. Here is an example of another instance when the tool was used thoughtlessly. Long live copyediting!
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Microsoft Word, Tools of Trade
OK. Don’t pounce on me as if I advised you not to use find and replace. I agree that find and replace is an excellent Word tool for editors. But you should also remember that you are dealing with a machine. If you want to replace all -ize ending words with -ise...
