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Review: How to Clean Up a Messy Word Document

Thursday April 30, 2026

Techniques and Tips for Copyeditors Preparing a Text for Publication (2025) from Margaret Hunter Raise your hand if you’ve ever been at your wits’ end trying to figure out how to clean up a messy Word document. Help is at hand in this slim publication chock-full of practical clean-up tips and procedures. Aptly titled How […]

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What Does It Take to Start Freelancing?

Tuesday April 8, 2014

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, whether you’re a writer or an editor, keep in mind that the only way to survive is to be brutally efficient — which means you will have no social life. You should, however, get a gym membership and use it, because you’ll need to keep your energy […]

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How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

Tuesday December 9, 2014

Upon retirement from their teaching careers at the University of Saskatchewan, my late mother, Sonia Morris, and her sister, Roma Franko, embarked on a labour of love: translating Ukrainian literature into English. For many years they shared desk space in one another’s homes in Saskatoon. Roma focused on translating, and Sonia on editing. I provided […]

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PerfectIt 3: Quality Software for the Experienced Editor

Tuesday May 5, 2015

Editors use add-ins to Word to make their work faster and more consistent. PerfectIt is one of the more well-respected add-ins for Windows users, and Intelligent Editing was kind enough to provide the Editors’ Weekly with a copy of the newly released PerfectIt 3 for review. Contributor Adrienne Montgomerie has written a detailed review of the […]

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Editing and Empathy

Tuesday June 6, 2017

I’m thinking more about empathy these days. So are other editors — witness last week’s post on the editor-author relationship. So are Canadians in general, judging by Google searches over the past decade. Source: Google Trends. Y-axis shows interest over time, defined as follows: “Numbers […]

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Quick Topics: Born or Made

Tuesday February 5, 2019

Many of us started out in other careers and came to editing via circuitous routes. Some of us were teachers; some were engineers; some were writers who drifted into the editing side of the industry. In some cases, we had jobs that required us to fix other people’s work on a regular basis, and that’s […]

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Letter from the Editor: Write for The Editors’ Weekly

Thursday August 24, 2023

Happy summer, readers! The Editors’ Weekly is taking a break for the rest of August. It’s time to enjoy the last weeks of summer — and of summer reading! Have you read any great books lately? This summer, I set myself a goal of reading only Canadian literature, and it’s been fantastic! (Need a good […]

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Get to Know Your New Blog Team: Aalap Trivedi

Thursday August 14, 2025

Welcome to our mini-series introducing the new editorial board at The Editors’ Weekly! This week, meet Aalap Trivedi. What kind of editing work do you do? In my full-time job, I edit textbooks and learning materials for the skilled trades. In my editing business, I work on curriculum documents, research reports, scholarly papers and book […]

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May I Help You?

Tuesday November 3, 2015

“Hello, Ms. Client? I’m Sue Archer from Customer Relations, and I’m calling to follow up with you about your complaint.” I’ve performed a number of difficult jobs in my life, but by far the most challenging one was a call centre role where I dealt solely with complaints. Every day it was my job to […]

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Commission of Inquiry Reports: A Special Kind of Editing

Tuesday January 12, 2016

Most projects we editors take on involve editing only, but if you’re in the mood for a stretch and enjoy the challenge of handling many different tasks, try editing the reports of commissions of inquiry. These commissions are appointed every now and again by the federal or one of the provincial governments to investigate and […]

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