You’re unlikely to find gainful employment as a secretary if you can’t type. Any job of work that you want to do obviously requires some study and knowledge of what you’re going to be doing. Likewise if you’re self-employed, while you can call yourself anything at all, if you really want to do what you do as well as you can, you’d be wise to arm yourself with knowledge of your field, and also knowledge of the tools that you use to do your work. For scribblers one of your most important tools is your word processing software. If you’re an Indie publisher just knowing the very basics is not really good enough, unless you can afford to outsource formatting and all the rest. It’s a good idea to study up on what your word processor can and can’t do because either way knowledge can never be a bad thing…
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This is great information for writers!! Sharing everywhere.
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Thanks Jan 👍😃
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HELP!!! Followed your suggestion and went to look at the word options button and ticked a couple of boxes and now my mss has blue lines under the words. Any idea what I have done and how I put it right?
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I’ve emailed Jo with your comment Lucinda – Hopefully she’ll be over soon to respond to you…
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REPLY FROM JO
That is actually a good example of Word
A red line indicates a misspell and a blue line indicates the possibility of a grammatical error.
The blues aren’t always right so accepting those changes across the board is not a good idea – rather check each instance to make sure.
Also, it’s a good idea to check (in the same area) whether or not your spell checker is referencing US or UK grammar – you can set the default if it’s using the wrong one.
Hopefully all the blues will now be of help to you Lucinda. 🙂
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