Program Details

• Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
• Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m
• Location: Room #140, 11010 142 St N.W. Edmonton (Map)
• Cost: See Event page
• Registration: See Event page
• Contact: Contact the host, Editors’ Association of Canada, Prairie Provinces Branch

MS Word: The Finer Points

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Baffled by all those Word icons across your screen? Have you ever tried to delete a paragraph above or below a Word table? Have you opened the toolbox to see what’s inside? Did you know Word can add a column of numbers? While Word holds a myriad of mysteries, Margaret Sadler masters many and is willing to share with her fellow editors those she has exposed. Attend a half-day workshop and come away the wiser. Respond to a pre-test and the instructor will tune content to address most challenges.

Bring your own laptop, and we’ll work together to sort out the various versions of Word you have at hand.

Margaret Sadler, an early adaptor, bought her first Mac in 1984. She upgraded each time she’d pushed that model to its limit. MS Word holds many mysteries, and Margaret enjoys maximizing her capacity to enhance Word documents and is proud of the formatting of each document she edits for her clients.

Templates @ Work

1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

All good editors seek to be masters of style, but the styles that cause us the most grief are the ones we use (or fail to use) in Word. Those of us who remain fond of paper edits and red pens (you know who you are) are missing out on the power of styles in Word to introduce consistency in documents. Cindy Hubick’s three-hour Templates @ Work workshop is an opportunity for editors to learn more about using Word to bring beautiful consistency to the documents we create and edit.

Templates @ Work will take you from basics to beauty, in a few clear steps:

• Intro to styles and templates: What they are and how they work
• How to set up and use the styles menu
• How to apply and update styles
• How to use (and not misuse) format painter
• How to generate and maintain a table of contents
• How to use field codes and “Ask Questions” to populate repetitive data
• The best and simplest way to set up a report template

A 10% discount is available for four or more registrants from one institution, business, or organization.

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Join both editor hopefuls — whether at school or accidental editors on the job — and career editors to share experiences and to gain support and encouragement.

Program Details

• Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m
• Location: Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton (Map)
  (bus routes 52, 57 60, 61, 62, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 100, and others, and LRT station Central or Churchill)
• Cost: Free for Students (with valid ID), $5 for EAC members, $10 for General Public
• Registration: See Event page
• Contact: Contact the host, Editors’ Association of Canada, Prairie Provinces Branch

Refreshments provided
Door prize: one annual EAC student membership (worth $125)

Our Panelists include:

• Jeannette LaBrie — an instructor in NAIT’s Radio and Television Program and Producer/Anchor at CTV Edmonton for more than 20 years.
• Eva Radford — an editor for over 30 years and has worked in a variety of production houses, from Hurtig Publishers, to Oz New Media, to Grant MacEwan University where she edits online courses
• Mary Lou Roy — the production editor at the University of Alberta Press and winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence (2009)
• Erinne Sevigny — a graduate of MacEwan’s professional writing program and works as both an in-house and freelance editor

*** Students: Check out our Facebook Page for a EAC PPB Student Membership Discount – Offer valid ONLY until February 29, 2012. ***

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STC Alberta is pleased to announce the New Heights workshop for 2012:
“Editing in the Twenty-Teens: Adding Quality to Products through Editing”

The presenter will be Linda Oestreich, an STC Fellow, former STC President, editing teacher, and presenter. Linda will focus on many aspects of editing that will help novices and experienced editors navigate the various communication channels present in the 20-teens.

Think about all the different places requiring editing these days: blogs, Wikis, Web help, online manuals, government reports, digital newspapers, and magazines. Technical communicators edit all these materials, but how has editing changed since the more traditional days of manuscripts and a red pen?

Visit the New Heights page for details and updates. Mark April 20 on your calendar and save the workshop date!

Prepare to meet Alice Munro, Pierre Trudeau, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Mavis Gallant, Hugh MacLennan, Peter C. Newman, Brian Mulroney, Morley Callaghan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Martin, James Houston, Peter Gzowski, W.O. Mitchell, and many more.

In this one-man show, Doug Gibson will tell stories about the authors he got to know well in the course of his career as an editor and publisher at McClelland & Stewart. Each of the 21 authors he discusses will appear on a central screen behind him, in a lively caricature. Bursts of music also enliven the 65-minute show.

Almost 20 versions of the show have been given across the country in the fall of 2011. David Cheoros, the Director of Edmonton LitFest, calls Gibson “a living link to the foundation of our country’s literature and also an impish and charming performer. His lifelong passion for these writers is contagious.”

The evening has been described as “unique”, and “hilarious”, and “full of great stories”. It could only come from someone who has had a long and fascinating career working behind the scenes with some of the most memorable men and women of our era, for example during his time as the publisher of McClelland & Stewart.

At the end of the show, there will be a question and answer session, followed by an autographing session, as Doug Gibson signs his new book, which by a strange coincidence is named STORIES ABOUT STORYTELLERS.

Program Details

• Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
• Time: Reception at 5:00 p.m., Lecture begins at 6:00 p.m.
• Location: Haar Theatre at the Centre for Arts and Communications at MacEwan University, 10045 156 Street NW Edmonton (Map)
• Cost: Free event hosted by the MacEwan School of Communications
• Registration: There is no need to RSVP
• Contact: For further details about this event, visit the MacEwan event URL or contact Sherrell Steele, manager of the School of Communications at steeles2@macewan.ca

About the Presenter

Doug Gibson was an editor and publisher at McClelland & Stewart from 1988 to 2004. More details about the show and the book are available on the website www.douglasgibsonbooks.com.