Technical Editing

Tracking Changes and Using Comments in Microsoft Word / Tutorial

Goal

This exercise requires you to modify a document while tracking your changes and to insert author queries using the Comment function You will need to copy the sample text at the end of this document into a Microsoft Word file. Then follow these directions.

Directions

1. Follow all the tips in chapter 6, beginning with the section “Change Tracking in Word: Tips and Techniques.” Apply those tips and techniques to the sample text below. Once you have finished editing the document using Word’s track changes, print and turn in your work.

Sample text

ONLINE ACTIVITIES OF OUTSIDE-THE HOME INTERNET USRES

The pattern of on-line activities by people who used the Internet outside the home differed from, that of home users. With the exception of job related activities, a smaller share of people, who used the Internet outside the home, reported engaging in each of the measured activites. Among internet users outside the home, 50.2% were online for job-related tasks, an increase from 44.6 percent in 1998.

In 2000, 32.2% of people using the Internet from outside the home died so to take courses--down from 38.8% in December 1998. In 2000, 45.0% of people using the Internet did so to search for information, in 1998, the figure was 50.1%. People using the Internet outside the home to check news, sports, and weather also dropped slightly. On the other hand, e-mail use was up to 59.1% in 2000 from 53.6% in 1996. Online shopping and bill paying was 10.4% in 2000 up from 7.5% in 1998.

Outside the home, whites were more likely to go online for email than Blacks, 61% vs. 51%. Blacks were more likely to use the Internet outside the home than Whites to take a course (41% vs. 59.7%), and were more likely to use the Internet to search for jobs (14.7% versus 7.2%).

In August 2000, an estimated 4.3 million people used the Internet outside the home to search for jobs. This represented 8.4% of the 50.9 million people who used the Internet away from home. Those with lower incomes was much more likely to search for jobs using the Internet. Among those with household incomes below $25,000 using the Internet away from home, more than 12% were searching for jobs, almost twice the 6.5% rate of those with incomes above $75,000. (Figure II-16.)