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7 Things About eLearning Your CEO/Executive Director Wants to Know

Association eLearning

We all have a boss and even our best ideas require an explanation, so before you get an LMS, start designing courses, and tracking learner progress, you’ll need to get his or her approval. Will we need course creation software? Will you use this as a development tool? 1: How much will it cost? Will they be new hires?

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Microsoft Word: To Track or Not to Track Changes

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by Jennie Ruby Track Changes in Microsoft Word is an indispensible tool for editing, but it is not the best tool for the job in every editorial situation. You may find that both tiny details and big-picture edits cause you-and your reviewers-to want less tracking, not more.

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Writing & Grammar: Ways to Deal With Tracked Changes Aversion

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In my classes on editing with Word, I hear one complaint more than any other: "The people whose writing I am reviewing do not know how to use tracked changes." " "My boss hates tracked changes." These are usually easy to fix, but show that they have trouble reading the document with the changes tracked."

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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

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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." In Word 2003, that function is found under Tools > Options > User Information.

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Writing & Grammar: A Brief History of Editing

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I still meet editors who have never tracked a change or typed a comment in Word. 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. Are you using Word's track changes? by Jennie Ruby.

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

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Most other balloon settings are found in the Track Changes Options dialog box. Click the bottom half of the Track Changes tool, and select Change Tracking Options. If you choose By author , Word automatically assigns each person who comments on the document a different color. You find this from the Review tab.

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Microsoft Word: Customize the Status Bar

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

When you are using Track Changes in MS Word, sometimes you need to turn the tracking off for a second to make some minor correction "off the record" and then quickly turn the tracking back on.  Now if you are a Track Changes guru, you have probably memorized the keyboard shortcut: Control-Shift-E.

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