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Should There Be Two Spaces Between Sentences?
by Tim Donnelly, guest writer—  f you look closely at any professionally-printed magazine or book, you'll notice that there's only one space separating two sentences. Why not two? Your tenth-grade typing teacher drilled it into your head that two spaces were proper. Your teacher was right but...Read more
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Should
There Be Two Spaces Between Sentences?
If
you look closely at any professionally-printed magazine or book, you'll
notice that there's ...Read more
Are
Inch Marks the Same as Quotation Marks?
When we were all using typewriters
(if you're as old as I am), we had one choice for making quotation marks.
We chose ...Read more
When
Should I Use a Dash or a Hyphen?
What most of us know about the use of dashes dates back
to our use of typewriters. Our writing ....Read more
When
is Underlining Appropriate?
 Looking
back at the days of typewriters, underlining was pretty common. Today,
aside from ...Read more
When
Is It Okay to Use All Caps?
Noone likes to be yelled at —
in person, on the phone or in print. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem
to stop some people from doing it ...Read more
How
to Prepare Text for a Page-layout Program
Aside from preparing documents for printing on office printers,
using Word is a great way to prepare copy to import into a page
layout program.....Read more
Should
I Choose the Bold Font or Choose "Bold" from the Style Menu?
When using a Word, you've probably noticed that you can
choose to style fonts (making them bold, italic, etc.) using the "style
menu" or, you can ...Read more
How
to Fix Jagged Fonts
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Say you're working with a friend on their computer system
and you realize that their fonts look different than yours. They're the
same typefaces but ....Read more
How
Add Special Characters or Symbols
No, I'm not talking about adding pictures of Elmo or Batman to your
document. I'm talking about typing a simple thing like a copyright symbol
— simple unless...Read more
Why
Are Font Sizes Inconsistent?
What's the deal? 28 point Sterling looks much smaller
than 28 point Stone Serif even though they are supposedly the same size.
Why is that?...Read more
How
Are Type Fonts Measured?
Type is measured in a standard of measurement, called points
and picas, which is most commonly found in the printing industry. With
the exception of type...Read more
Should
I Use PostScript® or TrueType Fonts?
Most people aren't even aware that there are different
kinds of font files so, does it really  matter
which kind you use? Isn't a font just a font? It depends ...Read
more
How
to Add Extra Polish with Drop Caps
Drop caps, like the big "D" that starts this article
that has been "dropped" into the copy, add a bit of design flair
to any professional document. Here's how ....Read
more
Insert
a Table into Copy with Ease
Tables
are a great way to quickly highlight statistical data. But, not all tables
are large. How can you create a :...Read more
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