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Upgrade Your Writing Practice: Tech Tools and Apps for Writers

Apr 09, 2024 - Michael Bedford

Some writers may be able to fill their manuscripts with inspired text without any outside help but, thankfully, in this age of apps and user-friendly ...

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4 Key Resources for Learning About AI: Self-Education for the Novice

Apr 02, 2024 - Lesley-Anne Longo

In this blog, the last instalment in our blog series on artificial intelligence, we will be looking at some of the many resources available out there ...

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Editing in the Age of AI: 5 Applications Worth the Download (Plus an Honourable Mention)

Mar 27, 2024 - Michael Bedford

Recently, artificial intelligence and its arguably endless applications have seemed to dominate the conversations in several aspects of our lives. Man...

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How Is AI Affecting Our Editing Practice?

Mar 20, 2024 - Lesley-Anne Longo

This week, in our series on artificial intelligence, I’m looking at AI tools and how these might be affecting our editing practice. While these new to...

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What Is AI, Anyway?

Mar 13, 2024 - Lesley-Anne Longo

There’s no doubt that we’ve all heard of “AI,” or artificial intelligence—it’s been all over the news channels for a while now. But what is it exactly...

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Changing Footnotes into Endnotes in Microsoft Word

Feb 16, 2022 - Lesley-Anne Longo

At TEC, we recently helped a client who had a request we hadn’t encountered before—he had written a paper that included many footnotes; however, he ne...

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3 Formatting Basics in Word: Spaces and Tab Indents, Setting Headings, and Adding Reference Notes

Feb 09, 2022 - Lesley-Anne Longo

Chances are, if you produce written documents on a daily basis—whether professional reports, personal projects, school-related work (such as dissertat...

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Changing Footnotes into Endnotes in Microsoft Word

Aug 30, 2021 - Lesley-Anne Longo

At TEC, we recently helped a client who had a request we hadn’t encountered before—he had written a paper that included many footnotes; however, he ne...

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Editing and Proofreading On-screen and Online Content: From Word to Adobe to Pastel!

Jul 21, 2021 - Samantha Rohrig

The first step in preparing a document for publication is the copyediting of the work. The majority of copyediting tasks today are carried out on-scre...

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Why Is My Document So Marked-Up? Understanding Track Changes and the Editing of Your Document

Apr 21, 2021 - Lesley-Anne Longo

Picture this: you’re an author who has just sent your first manuscript off to an editor for a professional copy edit. Eventually, the editor returns t...

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TEC Trick: How to Personalize Your Edits in Track Changes

Aug 18, 2020 - Lesley-Anne Longo

This article was originally posted in 2016, but the tips within still apply! Plus, we've learned a new tip and added it to the post below.    ***** ...

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How to Customize the Page Numbers of Your Word Document

Aug 12, 2020 - Chris Cameron

In this blog from the archives, former TEC Editor Chris Cameron teaches you the ins and outs of working with page numbering in Microsoft Word. Read on...

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The Evolving Lexicon of Web Jargon

Aug 04, 2020 - Michael Bedford

In this archived post from 2017, TEC Blogger Michael Bedford muses on how editors deal with an unending stream of technical and internet lingo, with n...

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Editing Software Becomes Intelligent

Jul 21, 2020 - Chris Cameron

This week, we're revisiting a blog from the TEC archives! Did you know that Editors Canada members actually receive a 30% discount on PerfectIt for Wo...

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The History of the QWERTY Keyboard: How It Came to Be

Apr 14, 2020 - Lesley-Anne Longo

The QWERTY keyboard: You may have heard this term before, or said it (FYI, it’s “kwerty”) — but where did this specific layout of keys come from?   ...

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The Online World of Grammar and Usage: Reliable Online Editorial Resources

Jan 16, 2019 - Michael Bedford

Although you’re unlikely to find many writers or editors willing to give up the hard copies of their dictionaries or style and usage guides, working a...

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Editors Shouldn't Text

May 23, 2018 - Nina Hoeschele

We loved this blog when Nina first created it back in 2011. We are reposting it this month in honour of this month's TEC theme of comics! Check out la...

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The Evolving Lexicon of Web Jargon

Apr 20, 2017 - Michael Bedford

Leafing through a copy of The Editorial Eye, Vol. 17, No. 9 from September 1994, I noticed a helpful article on abbreviations for technical terms. In ...

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How to Customize the Page Numbers of Your Document

Dec 01, 2016 - Chris Cameron

An author recently asked me how she could keep the page numbers in her document from appearing on the title page. She didn't want the actual numbering...

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TEC Trick: How to Personalize Your Edits in Track Changes

Sep 28, 2016 - Lesley-Anne Longo

Editing using Microsoft Word’s Track Changes function is a fairly standard practice today, and it’s easy to see why—it’s neater, faster, and easier fo...

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TEC’s Tips for Editing with Track Changes: An Introduction

Sep 07, 2016 - Lesley-Anne Longo

For most editors today, the chance to work some editorial magic on a hard-copy manuscript is not one that comes by very often. For those who might not...

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Editors Shouldn't Text

Oct 21, 2015 - Nina Hoeschele

    We loved this blog when Nina first created it back in 2011. We had been discussing the challenges of texting for editors. The writing ...

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Editing Software Becomes Intelligent

Aug 26, 2015 - Chris Cameron

A large manuscript has always presented stylistic challenges to editors, as we are charged with maintaining consistency through the entire work. If th...

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Looking Into Your Digital Future

Aug 12, 2015 - Melissa MacAulay

  Hello, TEC readers! Editors, like anyone else, occasionally like to take some time off and go on vacation, which is where I am this week. Wh...

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10 Signs You Need (…OK, Are Beyond Needing) a New Laptop

Oct 29, 2014 - Mary Ann Mazey

While some of us writers and editors pride ourselves on being early adopters, others may have a slight “not-fix-it-’til-it’s-broke&r...

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E-Smart Editors & New Marketing Technologies: Introducing HubSpot

Oct 21, 2014 - Lesley-Anne Longo

Here at The Editing Company, I wear many hats: editor, proofreader, layout designer, and social media editor. The last one links up to an initiative...