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AP Stylebook in Microsoft Word

Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 12:17
Section: Journalism

Mini-rant:

Someone needs to explain to me why there’s not a plug-in grammar/spelling module for Microsoft Word that uses the information from the Associated Press Stylebook.

Leaving aside the madness that is “fund-raiser” and its related words, I have to look up the correct way to list gun calibers and such every single time. It’d be nice to have it either auto-correct me or have that green squiggly line and a right click to explain the correct AP style.

Microsoft, AP, get on this!


1 Comment »

  1. If you switch to OpenOffice, you could request a plugin from the community…

    Comment by Tony — January 11, 2007 @ 1:30

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