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

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If you choose By author , Word automatically assigns each person who comments on the document a different color. However, if you send the document to someone else, they will see whatever color their copy of Word is set to display. So get control of your balloons, and get a good review of your document.

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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

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With the growth of tablet devices, authoring tools are having to re-invent themselves, yet again. It’s nothing new —just another step in the continual evolution we’ve seen since the early 1990s, when authoring tools were first introduced to help eLearning professionals create and deliver learning. The Rise of Authoring Tools.

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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

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It seems that he had sent out a document for review. He had carefully followed the procedure for protecting the document for tracked changes, and he had sent it to four people. When the copies came back, every change was marked as coming from "Author." On most documents, that tool is grayed out as unavailable.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Would vs. Will

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In training documents and manuals, we often have to tell the reader what will (or would) happen if they do (or did) a certain action.       If you press cancel, the document will not be saved.          If you pressed cancel, the document would not be saved.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Happy New Year! (or is it New Year's?)

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  Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? If so, consider attending my Writing Effective eLearning Voiceover Scripts class. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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Editing with Acrobat: Get the Comment Pane's Numbers to Match Acrobat's Page Numbers

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Endless confusion resulted when she tried to discuss editorial changes with authors--Is that on page 2? Acrobat picked this number up from the desktop publishing software used to create the document. But how do you discuss your comments with an author who is looking at a printout that has the "logical" page numbers on it?

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Writing & Grammar: A Brief History of Editing

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They are writing their corrections on a printout and later making the corrections to their document. I recently taught a group of accountants who each had two wide-screen monitors set up in portrait orientation so that they could view two legal-size documents side by side. Do you fax or email or walk your documents around for review?

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