Dear Booksharian Friends,
Now that I have Word 2010 I’ve had all kinds of problems. Tonight I’m writing
to ask if anyone has an idea of how I can tell Word what kind of font I want to
type and what to do about mixed right, left and regular quotes.
Here’s an example of the kind of difficulty I’m having.
Preferring page numbers to be at the tops of pages I remove the number at the
bottom of the previous page and type the number of the page at the top right
before the first word of text if it is in 12 point Tahoma. Last night when I
did this the page came out in 10 point. There are two ways of enlarging it. I
was just bumping it up but on a whim used control d and discovered that not
only was the number ten point but it was always ariel. I don’t know why my
computer is deciding for me to type in ariel size ten.
The work session before that anything I keyed into a proofreading document was
coming out bold and the only way I could to think to stop that was to reboot
which was when I got the ariel 10s.
My word is also confusing quotation marks. Some files are coming to me with
regular quotes but others have a mixture of right, left and regular. I tried to
replace them to standardize them but I was only allowed to replace with left
quotes which ruined over half of the quotes. I had to scrap that effort and
download the file again. Anyway I don’t know how to even tell the computer how
to make a right or left quote. Also proofing by ear it is harder for me to hear
the punctuation before a right quote so to be sure I have to listen to one
character at a time which slows me down. Evan showed me how to make the quotes
by typing 0 and a number but that is also quite slow.
Any thoughts about either of these problems would be very much appreciated.
Always with love,
Lissi who is proofreading like a tortoise with Word 10.
