Most editors agree that 95 percent is the industry standard. I hired a copyeditor to take care of those!” While a copyeditor will catch most errors, they won’t catch them all. What errors? There shouldn’t be any errors. Why Your Book Needs Proofreadingīy this point in the publishing process, you might be thinking, “Wait a minute.

Proofreading is the last stage of the editorial process and its goal is to catch any errors that the writer, editor, and book designer or formatter have missed. Originally post at the Book Designer on August 26, 2015.ĭo you proofread your book after it’s been laid out for print or formatted for e-reading? You should. Image by Matt Scott Posted on AugAugCategories Editing, Macros, Proofreading, Word Tags editing, formatting, how to add a macro, macro, Microsoft Word, proofreading How to Run a Macro in Word Your macro will be saved and you can now use it with any Word document.įor further instructions on how to use macros, see Macros for Editors, in which Paul Beverley offers detailed instructions for understanding and running macros in various versions of Word.

Close Word’s VBA editor by going to File, Close and Return to Microsoft Word.

Delete all the text that’s there (everything from Sub to End Sub) and paste your macro script into the VBA editor. It will show you where to paste your macro (look for the section that has the same name as the macro you just named).

Copy the macro script and paste it into Word’s VBA.

You will now be taken to Word’s VBA editor.

Be sure your name has no spaces between words.

Name your macro in the Macro name: box.

Go to the View tab, and click on Macros in the Window area.

You’ll find a list of writing macros you can try in the post Improve Your Writing With Macros, and the video below will show you how to add a macro to Word 2010: Some word processing programs, like Microsoft Word, can handle macros. You can also use macros for formatting and editing tasks. Macros can help you to identify areas in your writing that need improving.

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