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1. Hidden text is an important component of GIRDER_Query When you hide your Queries SqueakyClean actually turns it into hidden text thus hiding it whenever hidden text is set to be invisible After you ve hidden your Queries using the Show Hide Query command you can also toggle them back on using Toggle hidden text Toggling Hidden Text and Query Style Word is set to reveal hidden text Note the dotted This text is showing Below is hidden text a ete nee a Word is set to hide hidden text and the text This text is showing Below is hidden text disappears This is Query style P i MPS Word is set to reveal hidden text and Query style This text is showing Below is hidden text l i l a is set to hide too but it remains revealed Weord is set to hide both hidden text and Query This text is showing Below is hidden text style Weirdness While Toggling Hidden Text Weirdness When Toggling GIRDER_Query Word is currently revealing your hidden text This means when you toggle GIRDER_Query your query text will still show up Hide both hidden text and GIRDER_Query No 21 Toggle Highlight Working With Field Codes Toggle Field Codes The Mergeformat command tells this field to remember any direct formatting you apply to it Toggle Field Shading Using SqueakyClean This tool toggles text highlights on and off Another feature of Word is using the highlighter tool You sim2. Show hidden files and folders Hide extensions for known file types kal Restore Defaults Using SqueakyClean Using SqueakyClean Drafting with Girders The cornerstone of SqueakyClean is its set of tools called Girder styles Girder styles are a system of character styles designed to give you the ability to edit paragraphs in a new and unusual way What is a Girder A Girder is a character style You apply a Girder character style to specific sen tences within your paragraphs Usually when you write you use three differ ent types of sentence roles a main point an example fact or piece of evidence and possibly a note to yourself Girders help you edit because they display the roles of particular sentences in your paragraph SqueakyClean offers you three different Girders to highlight each sentence role with color to emphasize their meaning This system of high lighting allows you to install a temporary color scheme over your paragraphs In this manual these styles are referred to both as Girder styles and simply as Girders Installing Girders SqueakyClean makes it easy to add Girders to your document There are three ways to do this You can e Choose SqueakyClean gt Girders gt Install Girders e Apply any Girder style SqueakyClean will display the following message SqueakyClean can t apply GIRDER_MainPoint Girders don t exist in this document yet Would you like to install them No Yes Click
3. s HTMLTagger tools simple Its purpose is to give you rudimentary HMTL exporting capability not to be a deluxe or fully featured HTML tool Every writer works in different ways and I decided not to include an automatic document level export command because of these variations 24 Using SqueakyClean You should use HTMLTagger at the very end of your projects after you ve completed all major revisions and are ready to bring your work into an exter nal HTML editor After you ve tagged your text you can e Export it by saving your document as a text file and then import it into your HTML editor or e Cut and paste it into your HTML editor Text before tagging SqueakyClean Rocks How does it rock There are a variety of reasons SqueakyClean rocks the house Its system of girder styles is so handy It s helped me improve my writing a lot It makes basic HTML authoring much easier Its helpful manual is located online at the SqueakyClean website Text after tagging Ready for you to cut and paste this text lt h1 gt SqueakyClean Rocks lt h1 gt into your HTML editor lt h2 gt How does it rock lt h2 gt lt p gt There are a variety of reasons SqueakyClean rocks the house lt p gt lt ul gt lt li gt Its system of girder styles is so handy lt li gt lt li gt It amp rsquo s helped me improve my writing amp ndash a lot lt li gt lt li gt It makes basic HTML authoring lt em gt much lt em gt ea
4. and sometimes you need to take a break and come back to your new ideas later And advantage of Query style is that you can instantly hide these unformed thoughts allowing you to sweep them un der the rug until you re ready to work on them some more Meanwhile your document looks perfect like nothing is amiss But after you ve gained some perspective on your topic you can begin re sponding to your new ideas categorizing them and prioritizing them Then you can order your thoughts in a meaningful way and flesh them out into full sentences 1 Deleting Girders Using SqueakyClean At this point you can begin applying the other Girders This will help make it clear which points you need to assert and what evidence you need to present You can refine your main point with GIRDER_MainPoint and add in more ex amples and facts with GIRDER_Example Then you can strip off the Girders from your writing There may be a situation where you need to delete the Girder styles from your document For example you may need to do this when providing your Word document to someone else and you don t want them distracted by these styles Deleting the Girder styles from your document is easy To do so choose Squea kyClean gt Girders gt Delete Girders Be careful when deleting your Girder styles You may have spent time carefully applying Girders throughout your document and when you delete them you will lose all of this useful
5. As many writers do these days you may need to post your work to the web in the form of HTML However you may find that getting your work out of Word is a baffling and tricky process Sure Word has a built in HTML export com mand but it pumps so much extraneous HTML code into your files that the HTML Word generates is functionally useless SqueakyClean s HTMLTagger tools make porting your work into HTML much easier Be sure to tag up your HTML in a particular order or you ll make a mess of your document The order in which to do this is suggested by the order of the buttons on the HTMLTagger toolbar That order should be Special characters using the lt ISO gt command Any hyperlinks using the lt a gt command Ordered or unordered lists using the lt ol gt and lt ul gt commands Paragraphs using the lt p gt command Headings using the lt H1 gt and lt H2 gt commands Notice how the toolbar but tons are laid out in this order You can mess up your document if you execute these commands in the wrong order For example if you have a hyperlink and you then turn it into an HTML link this creates straight quotes If you then execute the ISO command which swaps out straight quotes with curly quotes you ll damage your links lt ISO gt lt a gt lt em gt lt strong gt lt ul gt lt ol gt lt p gt lt H1 gt lt H2 gt ho FOF OF a aa Sa fo ae A Start here and move LEFT intentionally kept SqueakyClean
6. SqueakyClean s tool bars menu items and keyboard shortcuts If you make a mistake and want to reset SqueakyClean s interface tools back to its defaults choose SqueakyClean gt Maintenance gt Restore SqueakyClean Tools Use this command to update Squeaky Clean after you ve downloaded a later version 29 Using SqueakyClean The Restore SqueakyClean Tools Alert Restoring SqueakyClean Tools Vis This command restores all of SqueakyClean s commands toolbars menus and keyboard shortcuts Continue with restore Uninstalling SqueakyClean is one single file and uninstalling it is easy You need only do SqueakyClean two things uninstall its menu bars and tools and then move the SqueakyClean template file out of Word s startup folder Here are the steps to uninstall Squeaky Clean 1 Choose SqueakyClean gt Maintenance gt Uninstall SqueakyClean This removes all of the menus and toolbars and restores Word s interface 2 Word s startup folder will open on your desktop showing you the template Squeaky Clean dot 3 Drag SqueakyClean dot out of this folder into the trash is a good place and restart Word SqueakyClean will be fully uninstalled and no longer launch 30 Using SqueakyClean 2007 2009 Rob Gilpatric All rights reserved The Apple logo is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc Apple Mac Macintosh and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc Microsoft Microsoft Office and
7. Yes to install the three Girders styles into your document e Click one of the Show Hide buttons If the Girder styles are not present in your document SqueakyClean will ask you if you want to install them Applying Girders Toolbar Buttons Using SqueakyClean SqueakyClean can t toggle girders They don t exist in your document Would you like to install them Wis The command to install Girders creates three character styles in your docu ment SqueakyClean does not automatically install Girders in every document you create so you must tell it to install them The Girder styles are GIRDER_MainPoint blue font color GIRDER_Example green background color GIRDER_Query red font color and italic You will see these styles in your style dropdown list ordered alphabetically GIRDER_ Example GIRDER_ MainPoint GIRDER_Query The act of applying Girders is an important stage of your writing process and you have several different methods for doing so You can use SqueakyClean toolbar SqueakyClean menu Contextual menu Keyboard shortcuts You may apply a Girder to existing words and sentences Select any text and then apply a Girder style to it You may also apply a Girder to your cursor s current location where it is blinking Without any text selected apply a Girder and then type new text in that Girder style More is covered about this in a moment The simplest way to apply Girders is to use buttons
8. words and phrases in your document A NNIV itn A A A al A Ar 4 AA Q DIAR t 1 NANA A J Ar A O A N P y g d UJ d v7 l Ud WS U l U U V V U Uo J Aw A wU ve included the results of a survey an anecdote e included the results of a survey an anecdote urce Here is my main point Here s a urce Here is my main point Here s a SqueakyClean can select an entire sentence automatically and apply a Girder for you Removing Girders Hiding Girders Using SqueakyClean To an Entire Sentence The most efficient way to apply Girders is to apply them to an entire sentence with a single keystroke This is a handy timesaver as it saves you the step of having to actually select the sentence by hand This method is available only via keyboard shortcut Place your cursor in the sentence to you wish to apply a Girder On 4 press the shift key along with its keyboard shortcut for the Girder you want to apply On press the control key Word will then automatically select the sentence where the cursor rests and apply this Girder to lA ADDIVINO d GUIE IO an CNUE oenlence D d Pp IU ad VUIUGI tU di LI IO Jl v IO ve included the results of a survey an anecdote e included the results of a survey an anecdote urce Here is my main point Here s a urce Here is my main point Here s a There will be times when you want to remove a Girder from a paragraph or several sentences and make it pla
9. x Apply Query Style lou ctrl q alt q Applying Girder Styles to a Sentence Apply Main Point style to a sentence ctrl opt z alt shift z Apply Example style to a sentence Ex ctrl opt x alt shift x Apply Query Style to a sentence Ip ctrl opt q alt shift q The shortcuts for Example and Query make sense since they use x and q re spectively But Main Point uses z which doesn t make sense z was chosen be cause it is the closest letter to the left hand control key Once you ve installed Girders into your document you can apply Girders to different selections or ranges of text You can apply Girders to three ranges to the point where the cursor rests known as the insertion point to a selection of words but also to an entire sentence To the Insertion Point You can apply Girders to where the cursor lies in your document This allows you to type new text in whatever Girder you require Annlivina a Cirdar tn tha Inceartinn Dnini ADD VINd a Oll der to the Insertion Point al J J ve included the results of a survey an anecdote e included the results of a survey an anecdote urce Here s a transition into my next urce Here is my main point Here s a transition To a Selection of Words You can apply Girders to a selection of words This allows you to select phrases or keywords and apply a Girder onto what you ve selected This gives you extra flexibility in how you choose to use Girder styles to highlight impor tant
10. Clean The Text Boundaries tool displays your page margins table cell boundaries and if you have them text frames This tool is useful when inspecting and designing your document s margins Showing Text Boundaries The following is a disorganized pai Here is my analysis that includes a an example of my main point in w or quotation I better double check The View The View troublesho troublesho Page Display Tools First let s c Page Display Tools First let s Text Boundarie Te xt Boundarie The Toggle non printing characters tool is a duplicate of the button that s already on the formatting toolbar This tool shows and hides invisible or non printing characters such as word spaces tab keys and paragraph marks It s very im portant to realize these invisible exist and that they represent an aspect of Word that can trip you up and you can make a mess Showing Non printing Characters Here is an indented paragraph Here I indented too much Here isan indented paragraph 4 gt Here indented too much 4 18 Toggle Bookmarks Toggle ViewMaster All The Page Grid Table Gridlines and Ruler Toggle Page Gridlines Using SqueakyClean Bookmarks are invisible regions within your document Bookmarks have start and end points that you can specify and can name The Toggle bookmarks tool shows and hides these bookmark start and end points One useful application of bookmarks is to u
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12. Using Squeaky Clean What Is SqueakyClean Using SqueakyClean Welcome to SqueakyClean the only Word based writing tool that helps you write at the sub paragraph level SqueakyClean offers a set of writing tools to help you save time edit more efficiently and think more clearly by supple menting and automating Microsoft Word in several new ways The first thing SqueakyClean offers is Girder styles Girder styles are character based styles built to show the structure of your paragraphs Once you see this structure you can amplify the meaning and optimize the delivery of each paragraph SqueakyClean also offers a suite of editing tools and utilities to help you write and work more effectively CONTENTS GETTING STARTED 3 Installing SqueakyClean 3 DRAFTING WITH GIRDERS 5 What is a Girder 5 Installing Girders 5 Applying Girders 6 Removing Girders 9 Hiding Girders 9 Drafting in the Fast Lane 10 Deleting Girders 12 EDITING WITH EDITBLISS 13 Splitting Paragraphs With BreakApart 13 Using Move Up and Move Down To Reorder Sentences 14 Collapsing Paragraphs With PutTogether 14 Move Right and Move Left 15 Using Toggle Useless Words 15 SEEING BETTER WITH VIEWMASTER 17 Page Display Tools 17 The Page Grid Table Gridlines and Ruler 19 Toggle Hidden Text and Highlights 20 Working With Field Codes 22 Style Area Width 23 SIMPLIFYING WEB WORK WITH HTMLTAGGER 24 Tagging Fancy Typography 25 Tag
13. ain point succinct and powerfully written Here is an example of my main point in which I ve included the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation better double check my source Here is my analysis that includes a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here s a transition into my next paragraph Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is an example of my main point in which I ve included the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation Here is my analysis that includes a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here s a transition into my next paragraph Toggle Main Point amp Example styles I I ctrl Enter Toggle Query style I I none Drafting in the The process of revising your writing deeply and thoroughly is brain wracking Fast Lane and time consuming work Drafting with Girders can ease the process of deep 10 When You Know Precisely What to Write When You Have a Notion of What to Write When You Have Only the Vaguest Notion of What to Write Using SqueakyClean revision so let s learn several different strategies you can use for doing so Each strategy depends upon how much information you know you ll write Write your thoughts first then apply Girders You can write a series of para graphs without Girders and then apply them afterwards when you re ready to revise This is useful if you have at least an initial idea about the main point you plan on making but you need to o
14. are a variety of reasons SqueakyClean rocks the house lt p gt Its system of girder styles is so handy It amp rsquo s helped me improve my writing amp ndash a lot It makes basic HTML authoring lt em gt much lt em gt easier Its helpful manual is located online at lt a href http www squeakycleanwriting com gt the SqueakyClean website lt a gt lt h1 gt SqueakyClean Rocks lt h1 gt lt h2 gt How does it rock lt h2 gt lt p gt There are a variety of reasons SqueakyClean rocks the house lt p gt lt ul gt lt li gt lts system of girder styles is so handy lt li gt lt li gt It amp rsquo s helped me improve my writing amp ndash a lot lt li gt lt li gt It makes basic HTML authoring lt em gt much lt em gt easier lt li gt lt li gt Its helpful manual is located online at lt a href http www squeakycleanwriting com gt the SqueakyClean website lt a gt lt li gt lt ul gt The three paragraph taggers work in a straightforward manner lt H1 gt lt H2 gt lt p gt Place your cursor in the paragraph you want to tag Click the button whose tag you want to use Word then wraps this paragraph in this tag Text in Word becomes Tagged HTML text This is heading 1 lt h1 gt This is heading 1 lt h1 gt This is a paragraph lt p gt This is a paragraph lt p gt 28 Using SqueakyClean Troubleshooting and Uninstalling Troubleshooting Installation Restoring SqueakyClean Tools Most proble
15. can make Word shade them so that ZZ Style Area Width Using SqueakyClean they re more visible For example if you use a lot of cross references within Word this tool will help you see the field codes that generate them With field shading turned to always Y y my field code looks like this PA This is today s date 7 21 07 Never When Selected The Style Area Width pane is one of my favorite little doohickeys that nobody seems to know about it Of all the tools on ViewMaster this one s the dark horse the little gem the little firecracker that you have to start using What s it do The Style Area panejis a style inspector that shows up within Nor mal and Outline View but not in Page Layout aaea y 3 i none Here SqueakyClean Rocks 0 5 1 0 Headin How does it rock Ks baila SqueakyClean rocks because it s so handy 2 0 tstBulet Itrocks because it s helped me improve my writing too The Style Area Width dropdown allows you to quickly display the Style Area pane at several different widths in inches This pane displays the paragraph styles of each paragraph on your computer screen If you work on long documents or you write collaboratively with others this tool shows you the styles in use and can therefore ease troubleshooting problems with your document s styles Aa Using SqueakyClean Simplifying Web Work with HI MLTagger A Note on Order o A oO N
16. e beginning of a sentence For example the word so in the sentence So it continued for many months does not get highlighted But this same word ina slightly different position as in It continued so for many months will be highlighted as useless After you ve edited your text and pared down on any useless words you may have written click the Toggle Useless Words command again to hide this yellow formatting 16 Using SqueakyClean Seeing Better with ViewMaster Although you may not have known it Word has many features most people don t realize are there ViewMaster is a suite of several seldom used tools that relate to viewing your documents View Master doesn t offer any new features to Word that weren t there before but it does give you easier access to a hand ful of tools within Word s Options or Preferences under the View pane Here is the ViewMaster toolbar in its entirety with its twelve handy tools J 44 7 D 7 4 Y HBE m Z Ma a Nel The ViewMaster tools don t actually do anything to your document They re only for inspecting your documents and for making it easier to design and troubleshoot them Page Display Tools First let s cover the page display tools which are very useful Oqd h 17 Toggle Text Boundaries Some documents such as this manual use frames and it s helpful to see the boundaries of these frames Toggle Non printing Characters Using Squeaky
17. eakycleanwniting com Check out SqueakyClean s website Check out lt a href http www squeakycleanwriting com gt SqueakyClean s website lt a gt Tagging Italic and In HTML lingo the tags to make text italic and bold respectively are lt em gt Bold and lt strong gt 1 Select the words you seek to make bold or italic 2 Click the button whose tag you want to use Word then wraps this text in this tag The Taggers for Italic amp Bold lt em gt lt strong gt If you ve applied italic or bold text as I ll do in the next example the list tag ger strips off this formatting and you lose it Use the lt em gt and lt strong gt tag gers before you tag up your lists Text in Word becomes Tagged HTML text This is italic This is lt em gt italic lt em gt This is bold This is lt strong gt bold lt strong gt Tagging Lists The list taggers are simple to use also The thing to know about these is they II both refuse to work when no text is selected they force you to select text The Taggers for lt ul gt and lt ol gt unordered list and order list lt ul gt lt ol gt 1 Select the series of paragraphs making up your list 2 Tagging Paragraphs and Headings Using SqueakyClean 2 Click the button whose tag you want to use Word then wraps this paragraph in this tag Tagaina an Unordered List lt h1 gt SqueakyClean Rocks lt h1 gt lt h2 gt How does it rock lt h2 gt lt p gt There
18. formatting aAaTNng irnare IG le Un YU IQGTo Delete Girders Girders are styles that you may have applied onto many be sentences and if you delete them you may lose a lot of formatting Are you sure you want to delete them 4 SE 12 Using SqueakyClean Editing with EditBliss 1 2 Splitting Paragraphs With BreakApart Note how Girders are already applied to this paragraph In addition to Girders SqueakyClean offers several other helpful tools the seven EditBliss tools They are Paragraph BreakApart Paragraph PutTogether Move Up Move Down Move Right Move Left Toggle UselessWords The seventh tool Toggle Useless Words is the oddball as it works independ ently We ll cover this one last But the first six tools are members of powerful suite of tools that work together and they work especially well alongside Girders When you read a paragraph you seek to revise heavily you ll find us ing the editing tools in a consistent order will make the most sense Here s an example of the order in which you ll use the EditBliss tools Break apart a paragraph into component sentences Reorder those sentences and edit their contents so the ideas flow logically in their new order Collapse these sentences back into a single paragraph Let s learn about these tools in this same order This tool breaks a paragraph into sentences effectively splitting each sentence into its own paragraph T
19. ge grid Below I m drawing squares Whenever you work with tables it s important to turn on your table gridlines Otherwise it s difficult to manually adjust the width and height of the rows and columns within your tables Viewing Table Gridlines Below is a table This is a cell Here is another cell This is a third cell And a fourth Below is a table This is a cell Here is another cell This is a third cell And a fourth The ruler is an important typesetting tool It shows you paragraph indentation tab stops bulleted and numbered lists table boundaries and columns and margins Toggle ruler shows and hides this tool Viewing The Ruler gt i i D These last two tools are obscure However I consider them useful enough to include on the ViewMaster toolbar Hidden Text amp Highlights i abr abe abr Hidden text is actually a standard feature in all Word text although you ve probably never needed it You can select text and then choose Format gt Font 20 Here is the alert whenever you reveal hidden text and then toggle off your Queries Using SqueakyClean and click hidden to hide it This will make it disappear This tool allows you to unhide hidden text Note when Word shows you hidden text how it puts little dotted lines beneath the text Toggling Hidden Text This text is showing Below is hidden text This text is hidden This text is showing Below is hidden text
20. ging Word Hyperinks 26 Tagging Italic and Bold 27 Tagging Lists 27 Tagging Paragraphs and Headings 28 TROUBLESHOOTING AND UNINSTALLING 29 Troubleshooting Installation 29 Restoring SqueakyClean Tools 29 Uninstalling SqueakyClean 30 Using SqueakyClean Getting Started Installing SqueakyClean On a Mac On Windows SqueakyClean is a Microsoft Word template that you load into Word s startup folder however this location varies depending up on the operating system you use either Mac or Windows Once Word sees SqueakyClean in this lo cation SqueakyClean will automatically set itself up If you experience problems installing SqueakyClean see the section Trou bleshooting Installation on page 29 To install SqueakyClean on your Mac do the following First download the latest version of SqueakyClean This will download as a zip file that contains a template document called Squeaky Clean dot This file is the SqueakyClean plugin Drag SqueakyClean dot into Word s startup folder here Applications Microsoft Office 2004 0ffice Startup Wword Launch Word SqueakyClean will ask for permission to install itself Click Yes To install SqueakyClean on your Windows PC do the following First download the latest version of SqueakyClean This will download as a zip file that contains a template document called SqueakyClean This file is the SqueakyClean plugin Drag SqueakyClean template file into Word s startup fo
21. his allows you to re order them much more quickly than you could with a mouse or by cutting and pasting Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation 7 better double check my source Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is a transition into my next paragraph I3 Hit the BreakApart Command and it breaks each sentence off to its own paragraph Using Move Up and Move Down To Reorder Sentences Move your sentences using Word s built in Move Up and Move Down commands Collapsing Paragraphs With PutTogether Using SqueakyClean Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation I better double check my source Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is a transition into my next paragraph Paragraph BreakApart ctrl opt ctl alt Paragraph PutTogether it ctrl opt V ctl alt V Then you use the Move Up and Move Down commands to reorder your sentences to how you see fit In this example note how I ve already applied Girders to these sentences so this helps instantly clue me in as to a solid order the main point should come first With the Move up command this is super easy 2 Re ordering Sentences Here i
22. how well you ve streamlined and supercharged your writing If you ve done well you won t see very many highlights But if you ve done poorly you ll see high lights all over the place and you know where to make further edits Toggle Useless Words AI l5 Here is a 30 word sentence in need of optimizing Here many useless words are highlighted Here deleted many of those useless words and replace a few others Here took it one step further and now it has 10 words Using SqueakyClean Here s how to use this drafting tool 1 Click the Toggle Useless Words command This will highlight useless words 2 Condense your thoughts by editing away these vague terms 3 Revise further by replacing unclear words with tighter more precise ones The Effect of Highlighting Useless Words And to sum up the reason that SqueakyClean therefore works so well in my opinion is because it instantly demonstrates very ineffective things writers will oftentimes consequently do to readers And the reason that SqueakyClean works so well 18 it demonstrates A ineffective s writers to readers And the reason SqueakyClean helps in my opinion is it demonstrates ineffective habits writers oftentimes have to readers SqueakyClean helps you write by quickly highlighting your bad habits The Toggle Useless Words command has one idiosyncrasy It doesn t consider a word to be useless when you ve placed it at th
23. in text removing any visual formatting In this case you ll need to unapply Girders from text you ve written There are three ways to do this First you must select the text Then do one of the follow ing Choose SqueakyClean gt Clear Formatting Click control spacebar to strip away all formatting Right click the text to bring up the contextual menu Choose Clear Formatting This command strips off Girders from text you ve selected but it also removes any other direct formatting you applied to text This can be a handy way to reset large sections of text you need to cut and paste into your document Girders help you while editing because they display the role of particular sen tences in your paragraph But you may want to temporarily turn off this visual formatting and hide your Girders This makes your text look girder less There are two situations when you d want to do this 1 You want to preview your writing as your readers will eventually see it without Girders 2 You want to print out your document without them SqueakyClean makes it easy to hide Girders There are two tools to do so each hiding the different Girders Toggling Main Point and Example Girders Toggle your MainPoint and Example Girders on and off by clicking the Show Hide Main Point amp Examples command This removes the formatting built into Using SqueakyClean your Girders and makes them look unstyled Click this button again and the forma
24. lder Find this folder in C Program Files Microsoft Office Officel0 Startup If you can t see Word s startup folder Windows is hiding it To show it open any Windows Explorer window and choose Tools Folder Options click the View tab and then click Show hidden files and folders See the screenshot on the follow ing page Drag After SqueakyClean installs itself choose Do not show hidden files and folders Launch Word and SqueakyClean will ask you if it should install itself on your Menu bar and set up its toolbars Click Yes If you experience problems installing SqueakyClean see the section Trou bleshooting Installation on page 29 Showing Invisible Files and Folders If you re using Windows and Folder Options you can t see Word s Startup a Folder you must select this General View File Types Offline Files option in Folder Options Folder views fou can apply the view such as Details or Tiles that you are using for this folder to all folders Apply to All Folders Reset All Folders Advanced settings G Files and Folders Automatically search for network folders and printers Display file size information in folder tips Display simple folder view in Explorer s Folders list Display the contents of system folders Display the full path in the address bar C Display the full path in the title bar C Do not cache thumbnails 9 Hidden files and folders Do not show hidden files and folders gt
25. ms occur only during installation After SqueakyClean installs properly the first time it usually works fine Problem I dropped into Word s Startup folder and SqueakyClean failed to launch Nothing happens when I launch Word What do I do now Solution Sometimes you have to tell Word to open files within its startup folder To do this you must configure Word s startup folder preference Here s how Choose Word gt Options Preferences File Locations Select Startup and click Modify and navigate to the correct location see the table in step 2 of the SqueakyClean installation instructions Click Ok and Close Word s preferences window Quit and then relaunch Word SqueakyClean should start up automatically Problem I put SqueakyClean into the correct location and correctly set its startup folder but SqueakyClean still fails to launch What do I do now Solution You may be in a networked environment If this is true your user account for the computer you re using may lack sufficient privileges to move SqueakyClean into Word s startup location You can confirm this by inspecting SqueakyClean s file size If your computer shows Squeaky Clean s file size to be zero it should be more than one megabyte then the problem is a file privileges issue Consult with your company s IT Depart ment about installing SqueakyClean with the proper privileges If you feel so inclined it s possible for you to customize
26. on the Girder toolbar Menu Bar and Contextual Menu Using SqueakyClean The Girders Toolbar r n la MP Main Point I Ex Example Igu Qu Query Ty Toggle visibility of Main Point amp Example I Toggle visibility of Query yii All SqueakyClean s menu has another way to apply Girders Additionally you can apply Girder styles via Word s contextual menu which appears when you right click or control click text The Menu Bar The Contextual Menu p SqueakyClean Help ii Apply Main Point Apply Example Apply Main Point ij Apply Query Apply Example a Apply Query a Clear Formatting Clear Formatting Girders p Show Hide Main Point amp Example Toolbars gt Show Hide Query Help gt Cut EX Maintenence gt Copy ap About SqueakyClean Paste V Font D Paragraph EM Bullets and Numbering Look Up gt Synonyms gt Hyperlink AK The Contextual Menu In Action IULIE UIC IC gt 5ULILS Ul da SUL vey all aALICLUULE UL YuvLALIUL Ul Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written paragraph Help Apply Main Point k Apply Example Apply Query Clear Formatting Keyboard Shortcuts Applying Girders to Ranges of Text Using SqueakyClean Many writers but not all are keyboard oriented and I encourage you to re member the following keyboard shortcuts for applying Girders Applying Girder Styles Apply Main Point style lus ctrl z alt z Apply Example style I Ex ctrl x alt
27. ply highlight text using the highlighter This ViewMaster tool allows you to globally toggle this highlighting on or off Toggling Highlights shows you how SqueakyClean s Toggle Useless Words command works which cycles through your document and highlights useless words You can quickly toggle this highlighting on or off using the toggle highlights button LJ T AINAN 1 mm IN lL 1 N h 4 a O gg lin Q nig hli onts And this is too But this isn t This text is highlighted So is this text And this is too But this isn t Fields are esoteric within Word but they can be very handy Fields are regions of text whose contents are dynamic Word generates the contents of your fields automatically and field codes are how Word knows what text to generate One important example of field codes are tables of contents or TOCs If your hav ing problems with your TOCs toggling Word s field codes on and off is anim portant troubleshooting and diagnostic tool Field codes are a part of Word s fields feature set Cinln Ondana Q Linln Chadinn Field Codes amp Field Shadin o ta we The first tool you have when working with Field codes is toggling them on and off which makes Word show you their innards Toggling Field Codes This is today s date 7 21 07 This is today s date DATE MERGEFORMAT If you re using Fields it can be hard for you to actually see them and know where they are In these situations you
28. ptimize the delivery of this point and its supporting evidence Apply Girders as you write While drafting it can be a real struggle simply to articulate your main point and this is where Girders really shine In these situations you start without knowing what your main point should be Girders help you through this stage when you immediately apply Main Point style to one of your ideas It doesn t actually matter which idea you high light Then you think about your topic some more and evaluate whether the idea you marked as Main Point actually should be your main point This forces you to make your point more clearly and you can then re work your para graph and update your main point When you don t use Girders it s easy to emphasize the wrong idea Yet when you do use Girders this common drafting problem won t afflict you because Girders force you to constantly evaluate and articulate your main point one of their key advantages But when this drafting problem occurs the other tools in SqueakyClean make it easy to fix because the Paragraph BreakApart command covered in the next section allows you to quickly re order your sentence and dramatically alter your emphasis Sometimes you have no clue about what points are important This is where Query style really shines Query style can help you force out your initial ideas brainstorm new ones and then flesh out a loose structure for your text This takes a lot of mental effort
29. s my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation 4 I better double check my source 4 Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is a transition into my next paragraph Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation I better double check my source Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is a transition into my next paragraph Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation I better double check my source Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is a transition into my next paragraph Move Paragraph Up ctrl shift M shift alt Move Paragraph Down ctrl shift Y shift alt V After you ve arranged your sentences into the proper order use the PutTogether command to collapse them all into a single paragraph 14 Select the sentences you wish to collapse and click the Putl ogether button Move Right and Move Left Using Toggle Useless Words Using SqueakyClean 3 Collapsing Sentences Into One Paragraph Here is my main point succinct and powerfully
30. se them as destinations for cross references in other parts of your document In these cases it can be helpful to actually see bookmarks OL Auinn DAALMmarizo showing Bookmarks Here I inserted a bookmark This is a bookmark named SqueakyClean See SqueakyClean on page 1 E Note also how I inserted a cross reference shaded This is a bookmark named SqueakyClear here that refers to this bookmark See SqueakyClean on page 1 The Toggle ViewMaster All command toggles all of the above tools on or off a kind of deluxe show me everything tool I consider these tools a little less useful than the page display tools but these certainly have their place The Page Grid Table Gridlines and Ruler ae Hor B8 m i Lor The Toggle page gridlines tool displays a page grid useful if you ever need to add a lot of graphics to your documents As an aside you can alter the dimensions of this grid and a handful of other attributes The page gridline attributes are buried deeply in Word s hierarchy of toolbars Here s how to find them 1 show the Drawing toolbar by choosing View gt Toolbars gt Drawing then 2 click the Draw button and 3 choose Grid This will expose the Grid options 19 Toggle Table Gridlines Toggle Ruler Toggle Hidden Text and Highlights Toggle Hidden Text Using SqueakyClean Viewing the Page Grid This is the page grid Below I m drawing squares This is the pa
31. sier lt li gt lt li gt Its helpful manual is located online at lt a href http www squeakycleanwriting com gt the SqueakyClean website lt a gt lt li gt lt ul gt As you can see from the above example you should use these HTML Taggers only after saving your document as a new version Tagging Fancy Typesetting typographical niceties is Word is relatively easy Word autmoti Typography cally adds in SmartQuotes and smart apostrophes as you type But these charac ters and many others such as em dashes en dashes and single quotes are invalid HTML characters and can cause problems when displayed by web browsers To avoid these problems SqueakyClean can automatically tag these special characters using their ISO standard code equivalents lt 0O gt 29 Tagging Word Hyperinks Using SqueakyClean Character Name Character ISO Equivalent En dash amp ndash Em dash amp mdash 44 Smart single quote amp lsquo amp lsquo Smart double quote amp ldquo amp ldquo iging Punctuation and The gentleman very well dressed I might add held up my candybar wrapper and said You sir must be joking I turned to him snatching the wrapper and replied The act of littering is not a capital offense The gentleman amp mdash very well dressed might add amp ndash held up my candybar wrapper and said amp ldquo You sir must be joking amp rdquo I turned to him sna
32. tching the wrapper and replied amp ldquo The act of amp lsquo littering amp rsquo is not a capital offense amp rdquo Word documents can contain hyperlinks These hyperlinks can link to other files on your computer to specific locations with your current document and to webpages outside of Word You can insert a link into your document you can do so by selecting your text and choosing Insert gt Hyperlink The problem is that when you need to export you work out of Word extract ing data from the hyperlinks you ve inserted is a major grind You have to do all this cutting and pasting which renders Word s hyperlinks functionally use less SqueakyClean s Hyperlink Tagger tool make extracting hyperlink data a snap Here s how to use it 1 Move your cursor into the first or last word of the hyperlink You can t simply click into the text because some versions of Word will think you want to actually click the hyperlink and go to the link s destination You can t directly click a hyperlink Place your cursor into the word next to the hyperlink then click the arrow keys to move the cursor into the hyperlink Or move your cursor into the hyperlink by right clicking it and then hit the escape key kot fe 26 Using SqueakyClean 2 Click the lt a gt tagging tool and SqueakyClean will extract the shown text and the linked destination and insert the hyperlink in HTML format Tagging Word Hyperlinks htto www squ
33. tting reappears Hiding GIRDER_MainPoint and GIRDER_Example Main Point and Example are f i e z non highlighted but Queries Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is an example of my main reman visible point in which I ve included the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation 7 better double check my source Here is my analysis that includes a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here s a transition into my next paragraph Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Here is an example of my main point in which I ve included the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation better double check my source Here is my analysis that includes a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here s a transition into my next paragraph Note how the three Girder styles don t all hide themselves in exactly the same way The MainPoint and Example Girders toggle between visible and hidden but this command has no effect upon GIRDER_Query Text formatted with Query remains visible Toggling Queries The point of Girder Query is to give you a free form notation tool that you can easily hide so it behaves a little differently than the other two Girders Instead of hiding its formatting and looking like unstyled text GIRDER_Query hides itself completely becoming temporarily invisible Hiding GIRDER_Query Hiding GIRDER_Query makes n oy it disappear completely Here is my m
34. written Here is an example of my main point including the results of a survey an anecdote or quotation T better double check my source Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is a transition into my next paragraph Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written HE GEREWES chan ee Enka EN HMA AO Naa emul nemo better double check my source Here is my analysis including a discussion of some finer aspects of my topic Here is a transition into my next paragraph These two tools allow you to move right or left a selection of several adjacent words in one word jumps These commands are especially handy when mov ing around modifiers to optimize the rhythm of your writing Moving Text Right and Left P a te Here is my main point powerfully written and succinct One two steps do the move left er A thi h left Here is my main point and succinct powerfully written third moves the cursor left A fourth does the final move right Here is my main point succinct and powerfully written Done Move Phrase Right abc ctrl opt gt ctrl alt gt Move Phrase Left yabc ctrl opt ctrlalt The tool Toggle Useless Words cycles through your document and highlights over seventy words that are descriptively vague and useless You should probably use these words sparingly or perhaps not at all Once you see these words highlighted you ll then be able to detect
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