Technology Tips & Tricks for Writers

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Microsoft Word

Problem: You Accidentally Made Edits in An Old Draft Rather than the New One - Teaches you how to use the Compare and Merge Documents function.
Problem: You Need to Change Curly (Smart) Quotes to Straight Quotes or Vice Versa
Problem: You Need to Make All of Your Underlined Sections Italicized (or Vice Versa)
Problem: You Want a Header/Footer on Every Page of Your Manuscript But the First Page - For when you want to insert headers and footers and page numbers only after the first page.
Problem: There Are Extra Unwanted Spaces Between Paragraphs - These often appear when you've copied part of your ms. into Word from an email program.