An interesting discovery I made lately: I had a manuscript, given to me in
electronic form, that I had copyedited and formatted. It was then reprinted
and returned to the author for proofreading. Then I proceeded to turn it
into a book. This process, which included changing the font and the page
size, resulted in line breaks at different places. As I was working my way
through the document, tweaking line and page breaks, I found many errors
that had not been caught on the first pass.
I don't know whether to attribute this to the difference in line breaks
(which placed phrases in a different position in the line) or the change in
font (which perhaps made unwanted spaces next to quotation marks more
obvious) or to preoccupation with formatting when I made the first pass, but
it is certainly the case that I caught a lot of previously unseen errors on
the second pass.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
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"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
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Word's spell-checker helps tell you whether or not you have a recognized
word. It doesn't tell you if it is the right word (or if there might be a
better word).
Word's grammar checking misses major gramatical errors and yet gives many
false positives. I usually keep it turned off.
Those are the available tools.
I find that I spot many more errors reading a paper copy than I do online.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"swallowbird" wrote in message
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I am writing a book is it possible to proof read it with word