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Fix various Word document issues via copy-and-paste
Authored by: Dr. T on Dec 31, '08 09:59:09AM

A few warnings about the Copy & Paste 'repair' method:

1. After opening the blank document, ensure that the layout (margins, headers, footers, and gutter) are identical to the document you are trying to fix. Word will only need to paginate the new document once if you do this.

2. Complicated documents with multiple sections and different headers and footers may not copy well in one pass. Sometimes copying section by section works better, especially if the sections have different layouts.

3. Double-check the table of contents, the index, and within-document hyperlinks after the Copy & Paste process.

After lots of painful experience with long, complex documents (including a college science textbook), I found that it was best to work in plain text format until the writing and editing were done. Then I opened the text in Word and applied a carefully designed set of styles (chapter name, main head, head, subhead, table head, table text, footnote, etc.). I then performed copy editing. Lastly, I created the TOC and the index.



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Fix various Word document issues via copy-and-paste
Authored by: tjj on Jan 01, '09 03:26:24PM

This sounds very LaTeX'ish. :-)

One thing that repeatedly annoys me, is that I sometimes ave to use templates. that the creator, for some reason, thought should make use of tables as text-holders in headers and footers.



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