Most editors will be familiar with the basics of using comments in MS Word, such as adding, deleting or responding to comments. But there are a few things you can do to make working with comments easier for you […]

For academic and technical editors, reference management programs are like pineapple on pizza – you either love them or hate them. In the past, when a project arrived with references in EndNote or some other r […]

See what you need to see in Print Layout view
When you’re editing, you might find it handy to get the headers and footers out of the way. Once you’ve checked that the header and footer have all the relevant i […]

As an editor, you probably work with track changes turned on in Word. However, you may not need to track every change. For example, clients might be happy for you not to track things such as removal of double […]

I’m good at making to-do lists, but not at completing the tasks listed. I remember one item (find a carpenter) featured on my to-do list for about 5 years – it only dropped off the list when I moved house and it w […]