Microsoft Word for Publishing Professionals

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Still working the hard way? Make your life easier with this compilation ofarticles from Editorium Update, a nitty-gritty electronic newsletter forpublishing professionals. Here’s the scoop on Microsoft Word’s macros,styles, templates, wildcards, customization features, and much, muchmore. Full of specific, step-by-step examples that will take you far beyondthe basics, this is a rich and detailed guide for anyone who wantsto master Microsoft Word.“Some of the sharpest, most useful tidbits about Microsoft Word I’ve everseen. Jack Lyon does a superb job of presenting expert-level instruction ata level almost any Word user can manage.” — Dan A. Wilson, The Editor’sDesktop“This is not your usual ‘Ctrl+B will make characters bold’ stuff. This is seriousinformation for people who regularly use Word to edit serious material.”—Tom Anderson, “Word Help for Professional Editors,” Sacra Blue.“Jack Lyon is quite simply the Microsoft Word Jedi Master: Obi-Jack. Heautomates tasks in Word that would be hard to do ‘by hand’—and insome cases, just flat out wouldn’t be possible to do. If you use Word to doyour job, like me, and have wished that Word ‘could only do this or onlydo that’ . . . check it out.” — Doug Clapp, PocketPCPressJack M. Lyon is a book editor who got tired of working the hard way and startedcreating programs to automate editing tasks in Microsoft Word. He’s been workingin publishing since 1978 and editing on the computer since 1985. In 1996 he foundedthe Editorium (www.editorium.com), which provides Microsoft Word add-ins forpublishing professionals. Formerly managing editor at Deseret Book Company, henow owns and operates Waking Lion Press (www.wakinglionpress.com). He is alsothe coauthor of a business book, Managing the Obvious, and a contributor to WordHacks from O’Reilly.