Speakers
Session 3 – breakout seminars (running concurrently)
This session is best suited to intermediate level editors who want to increase their editing efficiency when using Word.
This practical session will look at the sorts of issues that can be lurking in a Word document which can cause problems during editing and later stages of publication, including manual formatting, bad or non-existent use of styles, incorrect characters, unwanted spaces, colours, patterns and shading, and material in fields, text boxes and content controls. You’ll start to build a clean-up toolkit and understand why clean-up should be part of a copyeditor’s routine.
Knowing how to do this clean-up will add value to the services you offer, but it will also increase your editing efficiency by enabling creative use of tools and techniques built into Word. In an increasingly competitive market, this skill will help you answer ‘Why should I choose you?’
Margaret works with organisations, businesses and independent authors to get their books, documents and online content published. As well as editing the words, she designs and prepares page layouts for print and digital and creates templates, ebooks and accessible PDFs. Before setting up Daisy Editorial in 2003 she spent over 14 years working in information and publications in an international legal firm, a local authority and several NGOs.
The session is based on Margaret’s experience of doing this sort of clean-up for over 20 years. Partly it’s about transferring the copyeditor’s task of defining the structure of a text from what we used to do on paper to the digital workflow. But because she works in content design and layout as well as copyediting, she knows what other issues editors can resolve to make the production stage easier. That's a valuable add-on for clients.
Margaret is an Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. She was a Council director of the SfEP and then the CIEP from 2015 to 2021 and helped shape the brand and vision of the newly chartered institute. As information director she introduced new formats to the CIEP’s mix of resources, including fact sheets, focus papers and newsletters. Believing in the power of keeping on learning, she made all resources free to CIEP members.