This book is about how to rid a Word document of things that can get in the way of efficient editing and, importantly, of producing a good final publication, whether that’s in Word itself, in a layout program such as InDesign or as digital content. The techniques and tips in this book will help copyeditors to build a clean-up toolkit so that you waste less time wondering why Word is ‘misbehaving’, allowing you to focus on fixing the words.

Over 35 clean-ups described including:

• Fixing messy styles (or no styles)

• Replacing manual formatting (style overrides)

• Making bold and italic stick

• Sorting out wayward bulleted and numbered lists

• Converting text boxes to normal text

• Removing content controls

• Dealing with colours, patterns and lines

• Applying proper symbols, dashes and accents

PLUS learn how clean-up can speed up editing and increase your efficiency, helping you to define a clear structure and use powerful search tools to ensure consistency.