Word Tips

Published Series of Word Tips

After presenting the Expanding Your Toolbox to Make You a More Productive Editor session at the Society for Technical Communication’s 2019 Technical Communication Summit. & Expo on May 6, 2019, I followed up the session with a series of Word tips to the company LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bookworm-editing-services-llc

These are the topics I have covered in depth:

• Add-ins
• Advanced Find and Replace
• Advanced Find and Replace with Macros
• Advanced Find and Replace with Wildcards
• AutoCorrect List
• Changing Find Command to Advanced Find in Word
• Clipboard
• Custom Dictionary
• Custom Names in Comments
• Custom Status Bar
• Editor Tools Tab
• Exclusion Dictionary
• Format Painter
• Go To Function
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Naming Conventions
• Navigation Pane
• Personalized Tabs in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• QAT
• Reading Highlight
• Reformatting Using Styles
• Tightening Text in Tables

Click the links above, which provide instructions and screenshots.

I also created a video for the Exclusion Dictionary document: https://headbookworm.com/adding-to-exclusion-dictionary-mp4/

It’s not fancy (no audio), but it walks you through the process, which is a little more complicated than some of the other topics.

I presented this session throughout 2019 and 2020:

• webinar for STC on July 10, 2019
• in-person presentation for the CNY STC chapter on August 26, 2019
• in-person presentation (with abbreviated title: Tools to Enhance Your Productivity as an Editor) for AMWA Medical Writing and Communication Conference in San Diego, CA on November 7, 2019
• webinar for South Central Texas chapter of STC on January 14, 2020
• webinar for Rocky Mountain Chapter of AMWA on February 27, 2020
• webinar for Metro NY Chapter of AMWA on April 20, 2020

I’ve continued to post people’s questions and advice from all of these sessions on my company LinkedIn page.

Non-published Word Tips for Standard Responses

I created this document to help writers at a previous employer use Word, complete with step-by-step instructions and screenshots from the software:

• Word Tips for Standard Responses

It’s been santizied (ie, the company name and information was taken out).