Because of the types of books I work on, it is not unusual for Word to put a red squiggle under a word or phrase that is actually correct - it just isn’t in Word’s dictionary.

Highlighting attracts the eye and by using different highlight colors, I can, at a glance, tell whether I need to review or check something. The tab names that show when you install EditTools are placeholder names.

Tip: It is important to remember that the tab names, such as “Drugs,” in the Never Spell Manager, and in nearly all managers, can be changed to whatever name best suits your editorial business. If I know, for example, that the client prefers “distension” to “distention,” I can, using NSW mark every instance of “distension” with green highlighting, which tells me that this is the correct spelling, and change every instance of “distention” to “distension,” which change will be made with tracking on and then highlighted in cyan to visually clue me that a change has been made (I can choose to make the changes with tracking off, but that is not something I ever do). Never Spell Word (NSW) lets me create project- or client-specific datasets. Now it is time to create the project- or client-specific Never Spell Word dataset and then run the Never Spell macro. I’ve created a stylesheet and cleaned the document (see The Business of Editing: The AAE Copyediting Roadmap II), and tagged the manuscript by typecoding or applying styles (see The Business of Editing: The AAE Copyediting Roadmap III), and inserted bookmarks for callouts and other things I noticed while tagging the manuscript (see The Business of Editing: The AAE Copyediting Roadmap IV). I am now nearly at the point where I actually begin editing the manuscript itself.

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