Course Title: On-Screen Editing 1 and On-screen Editing 2
Venue: Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor's Lane, Dublin 2
Date: Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Tutor: Anne Waddingham, BSc MIPPP, Registered and Advanced Member Society for Editors and Proofreaders
Times: 9.30am to 4.30pm
Course Fees: Members - €300 (€500 for two days), Associate Members or AFEPI - €350 (€600 for two days), Non-Member - €450 (€750 for two days)
Fees include all materials, refreshments and lunch.
ON-SCREEN EDITING
The course is available in both Word 2007 and Word 2003, depending on what the majority of delegates are using. Everything that we cover on the course can be used in any version of Word. So if your version is different, it won’t affect your ability to apply the techniques on your own machine.
Throughout both courses, we emphasise how files can be prepared for trouble-free import into publishing programs such as Quark or InDesign.
Our venue uses PCs but Word on a Mac is almost identical to Word on a PC and we have not come across anyone who has had problems transferring their new skills to their Mac (please note that Word 2008 on a Mac does not support macros). Shortcut keys in the handouts are listed for both PCs and Macs. One of the co-authors of the course is an experienced Mac user.
On-screen Editing 1
This course has five modules, giving a wide range of techniques and tips:
Getting started – what to look out for in an on-screen job; and how to assess hard copy so that you can begin planning your global searches (Find & Replace), macros etc.
Macros – the benefits; running and recording your own. This module will change your (editing) life! Macros are as important to efficient on-screen editing as Find & Replace operations, and not as difficult to create and use as you might think.
Find & Replace – using Find as an editing tool; combining with Replace to do more complex global searches including stepped searches; pitfalls of Find & Replace; and making the most of Replace All.
Efficient Editing – understanding templates and styles (creating, modifying, using to make editing more effective); lots of shortcut keys; problems and solutions in table editing; track changes, including tips to make this feature behave better.
Styles and codes – the principles behind codes; an explanation of (but not tuition in) SGML, HTML and XML; how styles and codes are interchangeable; the future of codes; questions to ask typesetters/clients.
On-screen Editing 2
In OSE2, we build on and practise techniques learnt in OSE1. A simulated project enables the delegate to assess a new job, and decide what solutions may be used to tackle the various problems. Delegates will learn to link files in a master document, assess and run a clean-up macro, apply ‘client’s’ styles, solve problems using more advanced Find & Replace, including wildcards, create and edit two macros, edit a table and prepare a report for the typesetter.
We advise people who are not sure whether to come on OSE2 to do OSE1 first because, even if you have been editing on-screen for some years, there will be gaps in your knowledge.
BOOKING
In order to make the course viable we need to have confirmed bookings from a minimum of 5 delegates for each day. Once 5 delegates per day have booked, each course will be confirmed. The latest date that the course will be confirmed or cancelled by is 15th September.
If you are interested in taking this course please click here to download the OSEBookingForm or contact Clara Schuessler at info@publishingireland.com
If you wish to pay for the course via PayPal then please follow the instructions below as well as completing the booking form as normal:
CANCELLATIONS
Bookings may be cancelled without penalty up to Monday 25th October 2010.
For cancellations from 26th October to 8th November 2010, Publishing Ireland will offer a credit note for further training. Individuals cancelling less than two weeks in advance will forfeit the full fee |
