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I'm not sure when I began to chafe at the white background in MS Word documents. I think it was when dark mode began spreading like...

I had to deal with this problem when I copied and pasted a chapter from a book into a new document, only to discover that the tracked...

A misplaced horizontal line in an MS Word document I was editing had to go. The problem was that it stubbornly dug its heels in and...

Last year I was editing a report for a major international consulting organization. There were several co-authors, and the review...

This should not happen, because Word automatically renumbers the remaining footnotes if a footnote is deleted. I have experienced this...

I spend a lot of time Googling while editing; it's an integral part of working with scientific material. To speed up the search, I use...

What the Macro Does I felt the need for this macro when I was working on a UK book that had to be converted to US style. I found myself...

It seemed simple enough. The style called for figure captions to be placed above figures (in fact, they were even called figure titles),...

The deadline was near, and I had to copy a table the author had sent into the main document. A routine task—except that the table would...

Microsoft Word bristles with useful keyboard shortcuts. Many are well known, but some obscure shortcuts deserve to be rescued from...