SM&A sponsors Wordman’s Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word’s features, and how you can use them with your proposal or technical document development. In this article, “It’s Back!,” I provide a refresher on Word’s style checker, recently restored in Word 2016 thanks to a Office update … Read More
It’s Back! Checking your grammar AND style in Word
In Microsoft Word’s proofing options, in addition to checking your spelling as you type, you could also select to check your grammar, and your “style.” In this case, “style” refers to your use of capitalization, passive sentences, etc. While writing compelling proposal content, we conventionally favor a first person, present … Read More
Latest Wordman Article Published
My 43nd Wordman article. “Table Styles,” has been published in the APMP Perspective. Before Microsoft introduced table styles in Word 2002, part of Office XP, you had to format your tables manually. This became laborious for table designs with alternating row banding, a popular table design in proposal templates. Table styles allow … Read More
New Wordman Article Published!
My forty-first Wordman article, “A Matter of Styles,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective online newsletter at www.apmp.org/?page=PerspectiveHome. The full article is only available to signed-in APMP members. This article is the second in a series describing template creation, and deals with creating … Read More