Warm Up With Speed-Editing MacrosScenario: You're working in MS Word writing/editing hour upon hour, and every few minutes or so you need to fact-check. This means you have to minimize Word to maximize the browser window. Sometimes you copy/paste the letters/words from Word to the website. Sometimes you just type it in the browser because you forgot to copy it before shrinking Word. Is this giving you a headache? Do you want to prevent aches and pains in your joints from the monotonous toggling and clicking? Well, there's a better solution: adding a macro to Word to do a lot of the nitty-gritty for you. It's easy-peasy, and you won't even break a sweat. I promise. Your joints will thank you later. Your head will thank you too for gaining more time to focus on the real job! Your process will go from hundreds of clicks to a well-oiled, productive automation.
While venturing through all of my editing courses and starting up my editing business, a light bulb switched on...yeah, wait, there's got to be an easier method. My incessantly stationed elbows, robotic-like kinetic arms, and inconsistent keypunching were taking a toll, physically and mentally. This CLICK-CLICK-CLICK business is for the birds! Some of the macros I learned years ago sprung to mind; so long story short, I registered for a macros course that introduced me to the miraculous macros written and developed by Paul Beverly, an editor and proofreader for thirty years, who has generously shared his macros with us...for free! He's written macros for everything under the sun. I have added some of them to my MS Word; they are a godsend! No more clicking arrows up and down, fighting my mouse to position that jumpy cursor in the exact minuscule spot, deleting, backspacing, 1-2-3, and 3-2-1...good riddance! Let's pitch that wasted process out the window and automate. Some of the speed-editing macros I often utilize: Cappermax, Cappermin, CaseThisWordJumpNextWord, DeleteOneWord, EmDashUnspaced, SelectWord, etc. My ultimate favorite is Fetches! What the heck is Fetches, you ask? They are just that...macro commands developed to fetch inquiries from the internet to fact-check a character or phrase from Word. You simply place the cursor anywhere within the word, or you highlight (using SelectWord macro) the words/phrase(s) you're inquiring, hit the shortcut keys for the macro, and then the magic happens! Word automatically minimizes, and your browser opens up to the exact website you want with the answer to your inquiry. There are fetches for Google, Merriam-Webster, style guides, WordHippo, etc. Because I believe in collaboration and the all-powerful tool of sharing, I have mixed my macros knowledge with Beverly's macros language, and produced my first tutorial document and video, Fetching from Word. :) Below are the resources you should open before playing the video. I welcome feedback; let me know what you think! If anyone needs help with adding the macro, feel free to reach out to me. www.archivepub.co.uk/menu.html 
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