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This Worked for Me: Three Collaboration Tools for Technical Editors Who Use Word

By Amanda Altamirano

Many businesses use Microsoft Word as their primary tool for creating documentation and other digital texts. Using Word can be challenging when performing edits with multiple subject matter experts (SMEs) and individual contributors with varied writing skill levels.

As a technical communicator who was tasked with managing product suite documentation in Word, I had to find ways to streamline technical editing. After months of trial and error, I found three collaboration tools that integrate with Word that worked for me.

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New on the Shelf: Dreyer’s English

A style guide for writing correctly on the New York Times’ bestseller list? An editor interviewed on NPR?

Be still my beating heart!

Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief of Random House, has just published “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style”, and it is making a huge impression on many people. Who would’ve thought that there was such a thirst for clear and and concise guidelines about how to write better English?

To order this amazing book (and to read glowing reviews of it), click here.

If you order this book and want to write a review of it for Corrigo, please contact me at editor@stc-techedit.org.

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STC Technical Editing SIG Logo Design Contest

Are you an STC TE SIG member with logo design skills?

If so, we need you to help redesign our logo!

Entries are being accepted now until the end of February 2019. The winner will receive a prize valued at $100, and their design will be displayed on promotional materials for the 2019 STC Summit, as well as on all other official STC TE SIG publications.

For more details, go to https://stc-techedit.org/tiki-index.php?page=Logo+Contest.

UPDATED 14 MARCH 2019:

The contest has been extended to 31 March 2019.

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The Best of Corrigo: Setting Up an Editorial Review Process

By Sarah Barczyk
(originally published in 2009; updated with permission by Corrigo staff in 2018)

So you want to be a technical editor. You’re well-versed in grammar, style, punctuation, and the mechanics of the English language. You know what it takes to produce a clear, concise, readable paragraph and a coherent technical document.

Subject-matter experts within your company recognize that you’re an asset and routinely seek you out for writing help, and perhaps enlist your aid in editing large documents. But you know that so much more can be done. All you need is a process. It sounds so simple.

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New Feature: This Worked for Me

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

One of the great things about having a community of like-minded professionals is that there might be someone here dealing with technical editing issues that might be quite similar to yours – using tools and process that might help you as well!

To help you see what your colleagues are doing to help them do their jobs better, we are introducing a new feature – This Worked for Me!

This new feature will provide real examples of tools and processes that real people doing real technical editing in the field use to solve real issues and improve the quality of the content that they edit.

Basically, the authors of these articles will say “here’s a great thing that I use, maybe you’ll find it useful as well!”

We will try to make sure that the articles in this feature are not simply advertisements for tools – we aren’t interested in what the tool does, we want to know what we can do with the tool.

To make it easier for you to find these articles again in the future, they will be tagged with a This Worked for Me tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.

If you’d like to submit a story about a tool or process you’ve personally used to improve the quality of your technical editing or make your professional life easier, please send an email to editor@stc-techedit.org and tell us about it.