Monthly Archive: October 2009

Handling Numbering and Bullets in MS Word

Neat numbering and bulleting in a document goes a long way toward creating a document that makes a great impression. Rather than using the space bar and typing out every number or bullet character, applying the proper MS Word functions for numbers and bullets give a much more polished appearance...

Formatting Tables in MS Word

    It’s amazing what a little formatting can do to make a great impression on a translation client. Take the following text and table for example:   By applying the techniques in the above video, you can make it look like this:   Clients judge a translation on more...

Handling Line Spacing in MS Word

For some reason, Word files tend to default to a line spacing that doesn’t work well for the translations we deliver. Therefore, when preparing a translation file for the first time, or proofreading a translation, it is often necessary to do a few tweaks to the file. This video shows...

Nojeok Hill, My View from the Top – The New City of Ansan

My Korean hometown started life as one of the first "new cities" in Korea, master-planned by the government and built to alleviate congestion in the Seoul area caused by millions of people moving from the countryside into the capital region during the course of Korea's rapid modern development.  Construction on...