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During the course of their work, academic copyeditors often meet strange words. An online search with keywords drawn from the context of...

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...

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

I edit PDF documents using Acrobat Reader DC, a free tool. It generally works flawlessly, but which complex piece of software is bug...

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...