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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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Writing & Grammar: On Teaching Grammar and Soccer

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by Jennie Ruby Teaching or writing training materials can sometimes feel like making students memorize a rulebook: "Never place a comma between the subject and the verb." When teaching grammar, for example, I can sometimes hear myself sounding like a soccer coach teaching beginning soccer: "The game starts with a kick-off.

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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. In Word 2007, that is found under Office Button > Word Options > Popular. 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. (no apostrophe) and Happy New Year!

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Converting Empty Phrases to Gold

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Strangely, these wordy phrases tend to pop up in the first sentence of an article or training document, right where you need to be grabbing the reader's attention and holding it.   Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script? Is it because it eliminates human errors?

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

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Acrobat picked this number up from the desktop publishing software used to create the document. Or do you need a reliable way to get feedback from several people on a document or PowerPoint deck? Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?