Mar. 26th, 2007

linaewen: (Tigger Writing)
Well, I finally figured out one reason why I haven't yet finished an editing project that I took on last year.  It's impossible, that's why!

Of course it's not impossible, but it really is a pain trying to do a proper editing job of a manual that looks like it was stuck together by a committee using scissors and cut up pieces of paper.  It's full of unexplainable shifts in font and formatting, and references to documents that I have to go find to be sure the page numbers are accurate.  There is a section that contains graphics which is totally hopeless -- I can't seem to get Word to show me all the pictures it says are in there, and I can't seem to change the formatting to make sense of the section.

My solution?  Edit the text and leave it to someone else to fix the graphics.  I know when I'm beat.  ;-)  That doesn't solve all my problems, but it helps.  I am determined to finish this today, though, because the feeling of having it finally out of my hair will wonderful.  I'm done with procrastinating.

Hopefully it won't take all day, as I have other things I would dearly love to be doing.  Maybe I'll be able to work better if I have a wee coffee break...

;-)

ETA:  Finished and mailed!  Now I just need to wait and see if it passes muster.

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