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Short course Automate Your Editing 2025

This Short Course will help translators and editors automate certain tasks and gain greater efficiency in editing long documents.

Information

Period

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1,5 Distance teaching hours
4:00pm to 5:30pm

Language

English

Format

Distance learning

Contact

Véronique SAURON
+41 (0)22 379 86 76
Veronique.Sauron(at)unige.ch

Registration

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Fees:

CHF 150.-

Contribution to the SDGs

Objectives

The workshop will help you to automate certain editing tasks to save time on big documents

Audience

Editors who have little or no knowledge of how to use advanced find and replace, wildcards, macros and hotkeys in Microsoft Word

Programme

The workshop is an introduction to:

  • Advanced find and replace in Microsoft Word
  • Wildcards
  • Macros
  • Hotkeys

Director(s)

Prof. Susan PICKFORD, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Coordinator(s)

Véronique SAURON, AV¶ÌÊÓÆµ

Pedagogical method

The workshop will comprise presentations and practical exercises. Handouts will be provided for you to learn more at your own pace after the workshop is over.

Admission criteria

Participants should have a very good command of English and must use a PC. This workshop is not suitable for Macs. The workshop may be difficult to follow on a small laptop screen.

Schedule

4:00pm to 5:30pm

• Stuart COE, editor and translator at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva

Contribution to the SDGs