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As I sit down to write this article tonight there’s a fly buzzing around the room. It’s driving me insane. Every few seconds it makes a pass by my ear and I lunge out to try and bat the life out of the thing. I can’t finish a sentence without this pest distracting me from the task at hand. I’m not good at killing flies. My wife’s grandmother has a talent for it, but I’m getting distracted here — you can blame the fly. I’m not making this up just to have a cheesy anecdote to begin with — the fly is still buzzing around my head — but this is sometimes how I feel as an editor and writer making my living on the Internet.
That’s why I love software that eliminates distraction. 1. The classic example of distraction-free writing software is WriteRoom. 2. JDarkRoom is a Java-based (and hence cross-platform), free application that imitates the functionality of WriteRoom. 3. Illuminate the application window you’re working with, and darken the rest. 4. 5. 6. Discover More. Featured Windows Download: Insure Your Data with Personal Backup. Word 2007 for Writers: Part 5 - Proofreading and Editing Tricks. I tend to prefer old-fashioned pen and paper for going over my drafts and marking revisions and edits. The screen has never struck me as a good medium for reading longer works on, and I think differently with a pen in hand than with a keyboard under my fingers. That said, Word 2007 puts a lot of useful tools at your fingertips for proofreading and editing.
Of course, there’s spell-check, which is a useful tool when used wisely and carefully (I can’t tell you how many papers I’ve read by students who apparently ran spell-check and simply accepted whatever changes Word recommended). But there are a lot more little tools that can prove very useful indeed — you just need to know where to look. Here then, in no particular order, is a grab-bag of tips and tricks for editing and proofreading using Word 2007. Add space between paragraphs If you’re like me and print your documents out to proofread them, you could probably use a little more space between paragraphs for notes and additions. Evernote. Why it will make it & 20 Awesome Ways to Use It. A guest post from Zee, the Creative Director at London based digital agency, WeDoCreative Evernote, make no quibbles about it, has changed the way I store my information &, if it hasn’t already, should be the way it stores yours.
Firstly, what is it? Evernote is a tool which stores notes, documents images and gives you the ability to be able to access search them from wherever you are. Still unclear? Here’s a video of Evernote’s CEO Phil Libin giving you a 1 minute run down of his service. Before we go into why it’s special, here’s a little background, Evernote was initially just a desktop application, a mighty fine one at, but just a desktop application all the same. So why is it such a special tool you ask…why do I, as well as the majority of other Evernote users have so much passion faith in the product.
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