Macros and information menu
If you want to start from scratch then “Macros from Square One” will walk you through the very first stages. It’s available as a Word file download in a Mac version and a PC version.An even simpler start-up to at least try out a few macros is “Macros Free Trial”. It, too, is available as a Word file download, which covers both Mac and PC.
You can download my whole book, but there’s also a really useful “Macro Menu”, where the macros are grouped under 24 categories.
From that list you can select and then download the particular macro you want, and also get a PDF of the book section where the macro’s function is explained.
There’s also a dated list of macros, so you can check if any given macro has been updated recently.
The individual sections of the book are listed and linked below, so you can easily get the latest PDFs version of each.
Macros for Editors
General introductionIntroduction to macros
Downloading and running macros
Favourite tools of editors
Favourite tools of proofreaders
Proofreading a book – a possible workflow
Book editing – a possible workflow
Tools for different aspects of editing
Macro Menu – complete macro tools list
Textual analysis
Main pre-editing tool – FRedit
Pre-editing tools
Editing – text change
Editing – information
Editing – highlighting
Editing – navigation
Editing – comment handling
Editing – track changes
Other tools
Appendix 1 – Codes for F&R
Appendix 2 – Codes for non-wildcard F&R
Appendix 3 – Codes for wildcard F&R
Appendix 4 – Some useful wildcard expressions
Appendix 5 – ASCII codes
Appendix 6 – Useful unicode numbers
Appendix 7 – Sample stylesheet
Appendix 8 – Sample FRedit list
Appendix 9 – Word 365 options
Appendix 10 – Word 365 menu items
Appendix 11 – Word 2010 options
Appendix 12 – Backing up the Normal Template
Appendix 13 – Word Macro Techniques
Appendix 14 – Video list
Appendix 15 – Macros on video
Appendix 16 – FRedit library
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