Customise the quick access toolbar

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Are you tired of having to click several times to use a feature in MS Word? Or perhaps you can’t find things when you need them. The key to speeding up your editing is to customise the quick access toolbar (QAT). Few people know about this useful feature, but I find it a real time-saver when I’m editing a document. …

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​Three easy ways to make Word shortcuts work for you

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When you’re editing in Word, keyboard shortcuts are a fabulous way to speed up your work and avoid an overuse injury. It’s easy to find Word shortcuts – here are some helpful lists from Microsoft and fellow editor Louise Harnby. But shortcuts are only useful if you can easily remember them. Here are three tips to help you to do …

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Three reasons why editors need PerfectIt

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Among the many tools available for editors, PerfectIt is one of the best. Despite using PerfectIt for more than 10 years, I still find myself thinking ‘that’s fantastic’ when I run it on a long document. Here are three reasons why I love PerfectIt. 1 – PerfectIt saves you time PerfectIt, an add-in to MS Word, was initially designed to …

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