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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

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. Even if a reviewer of the edited document wanted Power Point to be printed with a space, you would not allow it, because PowerPoint is the proper name of the software.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

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. At the bottom of the Styles pane, click the Manage Styles tool. You find this from the Review tab.

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MAY 18, 2010

These were the questions of one reader this week, and these questions come up in nearly every writing class I teach ! Your readers have seen other publications that use capitalization for the names of on-screen tools and buttons, and the tools themselves display names that are usually capitalized. Should I use italics for those?

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JULY 28, 2010

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. Was it possible that changing the screen colors for tracked changes to something other than "By Author" had somehow erased the identifying information?

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APRIL 20, 2010

You can restructure or recast a sentence to put information in the order the reader needs it: Original: Click the Chart tool from the Illustrations group on the Insert tab. Your reader cannot see the Chart tool until the Insert tab is selected. Recast: From the Insert tab, Illustrations group, click the Chart tool.

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JULY 8, 2010

Both Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat have a "Send for Review" tool. Here is an overview of the two programs' tools for reviewing documents. The Microsoft Word Send for Review tool requires Outlook as your email program. The Comments tool allows for more extensive discussion of the document.

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JULY 15, 2010

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. Acrobat's graphical mark-up tools? Are you using a mixture of electronic tools and paper printouts? Are you using Word's track changes?

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MARCH 31, 2011

  Now type the word Maryland : the software will automatically abbreviate the state name.   Italics can cause kerning (spacing) problems that are visually distracting and that must be corrected manually in your design software. But should I use italic for the period at the end? Which do you do? Please tell us about it. 

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Once that tool is on your status bar, you can turn Track Changes on and off without a trip to the Review tab. Some of these are present by default, others must be selected from the right-click menu, but each of these tools is more than a simple indicator. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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MAY 7, 2010

I received stories about one trainer who had a roomful of people singing out loud, and another who cracked up a group with a fun "test" question that let learner's admit that the software they were learning could be a pain. Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Two hyphens in a row are used to represent the em dash in situations (such as typing on a typewriter--and when using the software in which this newsletter is created) where the technology does not allow for the em dash. " Are you an eLearning developer who has been tasked with creating an effective voiceover script?

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

But these symbols have a huge limitation: Many designers, layout artists, and eLearning producers don't know them. That fact leaves us at square one unless we do learn the marks, educate our colleagues about them, use some online tools, or do all three. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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