by Alicia Katz Pollock | Aug 14, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
In books, chapters usually begin on the right, odd-numbered pages. If you’re formatting your manuscript for publication, don’t spend any time adding extra page breaks to force this to happen. Later edits may break this alignment. Use Odd Section Breaks instead....
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Aug 7, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
Let’s say you just finished typing your novel in Microsoft Word and decided you want to change the main character’s name from Michael to Sonny. Your publisher also wants you to use Paragraph Spacing Below to separate your paragraphs, instead of pressing...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Aug 4, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
One of the things that frustrates me when I try to print my documents in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 is that, although my printer does double-sided printing, the Microsoft Word dialogue box does not show an option for two-sided printing. So, instead of just sucking it...
by Alicia Katz Pollock | Aug 1, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
The “Spike” takes its name from old-fashioned store receipts. When the cashier was done with a customer’s order, they’d slap it onto a metal spike to store the receipt until the end of the day. In Microsoft Word on a PC, the Spike is like the Clipboard, except it...