When I’m deciding whether to follow people who I’ve found, or who have followed me (you don’t HAVE to follow everyone who’s followed you, but it’s polite to have a look at least), this is what I do: Check their profile to see whether they’re interesting to me Check their ...
too), but I often encounter spreadsheets full of text. For example, when I’m localising text from US to UK English, or editing text that’s been translated, and it’s been output from a translation tool such as Trados, it often comes to me in an Excel spreadsheet. ...
Just a reminder that in the newer versions of Word you can save to a PDF automatically without having to go through third-party software. Choose File – Save As then drop the file type down to choose PDF: Then when you open it in your PDF reader (I use PDF-XChange Viewer), there ar...
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There’s also a case to be made for writing up as you go along. Arthur Lugtigheid told me how he did this: “When you’re doing experimental work, write as you go along. It will save you so much work later. I find writing very difficult, almost like starting a painting – where...
Please note, these hints work with versions of Microsoft Word currently in use – Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016all for PC. Mac compatible versions of Word should have similar options. Always save a copy of your document before manipulating it. I bear no responsi...
better business sense. Not only would it save me time, it would also allow me to take on more work, since I wouldn’t have to spend precious hours transcribing. Given that it took me about about an hour and a half per interview to type out my quotes, that is about 7 and a half ...
If the text needs to be edited as well as localised, that’s two processes, will take me longer, and will cost more The more information that you can give your localiser / localizer before they quote for you, the more accurate their quotation will be, and the more likely they are to...
Please note, these hints work with versions of Microsoft Word currently in use – Word 2003, Word 2007 and Word 2010,all for PC. Mac compatible versions of Word should have similar options. Always save a copy of your document before manipulating it. I bear no responsibility for any pickles...
s OK to make as many changes as I’m making to their text. I mentioned that sometimes I will send over a copy of the work so far, and sometimes I’ll go as far as to turn the Word document into a PDF so it can’t be altered between me and the supervisor. But will the ...