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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

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When the copies came back, every change was marked as coming from "Author." In Word 2003, that function is found under Tools > Options > User Information. Some of his reviewers were working in Word 2003. But the reviewers in question were using 2003, so there was no way anyone had used that tool.

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Writing & Grammar: "If I Were" or "If I Was?"

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About the Author:  Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and "Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit. Tags: Writing & Grammar. You can learn about that here.

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Writing & Grammar: Politics, Religion. and Hyphenation

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About the Author:  Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and "Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit. Tags: Writing & Grammar. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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Writing & Grammar: A Brief History of Editing

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

When WordPerfect came out with their "redlining" feature, I jumped on it, but stick-in-the-mud reviewers and authors balked, claiming the marked up text was hard to read. Up through Word 2003, moved text appeared as deleted in one place and inserted in another. Tags: Writing & Grammar.

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Writing & Grammar: Can I Change the Appearance of Balloons in Word 2007?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

If you choose By author , Word automatically assigns each person who comments on the document a different color. About the Author:  Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and "Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit.

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Writing & Grammar: Tiny Questions that Drive Writers to Distraction

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My authority for this is the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th Edition, paragraph 7.46. My authority for this? About the Author:  Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and "Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit.

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Grammar Workshop: i.e. versus e.g. and such as versus like

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

About the Author:   Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and " Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit. Tags: Writing & Grammar. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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