As a poet, do you have a problem with MS Word capitalising the first line when you would prefer it to be lower case?
Even though there is no full stop, Word thinks it’s the end of a sentence when the carriage return/line feed key is pressed so it automatically turns the next characcter into a [...]

The Case of the LOST TOOLBARS.
One day Jeremy decided to write a story for his friends but he could not do everything he wanted to do because the toolbars were missing.
Jeremy went to see his friend PC Computerman and told him the sad tale.
‘What you need to do my little friend’, said PC Computerman, ‘is [...]

“Perfect storm” of cliches makes bad English list
By Andrew Stern Reuters -A “surge” of overused words and phrases formed a “perfect storm” of “post-9/11″ cliches in 2007, according to a U.S. university’s annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.Choosing from among 2,000 submissions, the public relations department at Michigan’s Lake Superior [...]

Does a little itch get into your brain when you think there’s a mistake in a book?
Do you have to scratch it before you can go on?
I do.
When John thinks about phoning Barbara, dials her number (did ‘dials’ cause an itch?) and starts to speak and at the end of the conversation Barbara thinks she is [...]

Do you use Microsoft Word to write your stories?
Do you know all the tools it provides to make life easier?
Things like automatically double spacing, controlling the spell checker, numbering pages, indenting.
Hopefully info on this site can help.
Respond with some ideas so they can be passed on.
Keir