Use contractions for “friendlier” writing
Contractions are shortened forms of words and phrases. Let’s is the contracted form of let us. An apostrophe is used in place of all omitted letters.
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A professional editor would spot 8 errors; how many did you spot?
Use Find and Replace to remove extra spaces
You can use the Find and Replace feature in most software programs to spot extra spaces. Sometimes, if you type too fast, you can get an extra space or two. Professional book publishers and designers use one space after a period.
What?! What‽ When should I use an interrobang?
An interrobang is a punctuation mark that combines a question mark (?) and an explanation mark (!). What?! It cost how much‽ Are they questions or explanations? Instead of typing two punctuation marks, you can type an interrobang. If you’re preparing a print document, you can find 4 variations of the interrobang in the font Wingdings2. For […]
Typing trademark and copyright symbols
Since your keyboard comes with a trademark symbol ™, a registered trademark symbol ®, and a copyright symbol ©, why not use them instead of typing the word or using alphabetic approximations such as (TM) or (C).
