Word Survey
CATHY PERKINS - author, Word expert, and WordPress guru - lives in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina. PERKINS' upcoming book is Word: The Ultimate Guide for Authors and Editors

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CATHY PERKINS
Only For Authors and Editors
Are you an author or an editor who uses Microsoft Word
for your manuscripts? If you don't use Word, you should.
It is one of the most powerful desktop publishing tools
available anywhere and has many built-in features to make
it easier for you.
In fact, do you know that there are over 200 shortcuts
available in Word? And those are only the shortcuts.
That's not to mention the other tools that are available.
But how do you learn to use those features? When you
want to write, you want to write - not spend time learning
software. As an author or an editor you want the manuscript
you submit to a publisher to be clean and professional
looking. It also needs to be easy for the publisher to use.
Let's look at just a few Word tools that you, an author
or editor, should know. Publishers do not like auto
formatted bulleted or numbered lists. The general rule is,
if you can't highlight it (with your mouse), don't use it.
To turn off bulleted and numbered lists, go to Tools,
Auto Correct, Auto Format As You Type and uncheck
auto bulleted and auto numbered lists. You can create
your own lists with numbers and figures but make sure
you are able to highlight everything you type.
While you are in the Auto Format As You Type section,
uncheck Replace Straight Quotes with Curly Quotes. Your
publisher might or might not care about this but why take
the chance. You don't want your manuscript returned for
something that you can easily correct before you submit it.
This is the first in a series of articles for authors and editors
on using Word for your needs without becoming a Word guru.
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