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This page contains links to the following categories of software:
Antivirus, encryption, and security
Dictionaries and spell checkers
Microsoft Word plug-ins and accessories
Reference and information sites
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1Password (password management software)
Ad-Aware antivirus and antispyware (Windows)
AES Crypt encryption (Mac, Windows)
AV Comparatives antivirus/antimalware reviews
AVG antivirus (Android, Mac, Windows)
Bitdefender antimalware suite (Mac, Windows)
ClamXav antivirus (Mac)
Comodo firewall (Windows)
F-Prot antivirus (Windows)
Intego antivirus, antispyware, and firewall (iOS, Mac)
Spybot Search and Destroy (Windows)
Symantec Norton Antivirus (Mac, Windows)
WebRoot Spy Sweeper (Windows)
Zonealarm antivirus and firewall (Windows)
Acronis True Image disk cloning software (Windows)
Apple's iCloud (Mac, Windows)
Backblaze backups (Mac, Windows)
Carbon Copy Cloner (Mac)
Carbonite backups (Mac, Windows)
Crashplan backups (Mac, Windows)
Dropbox (Mac, Windows)
Google Drive (Mac, Windows)
How to backup and restore the Windows registry (How to Geek)
Mediafire (Mac, Windows)
Microsoft’s OneDrive (Mac, Windows)
Retrospect backup software (Mac, Windows)
SendThisFile (Mac, Windows)
SuperDuper (Mac)
Adium (Mac)
Apple Facetime (iOS, Mac)
Google Hangouts (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)
Pidgin (Windows)
Skype (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)
Trillian (Mac, Windows)
Zoom Web conferencing system (Mac, Windows)
Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
British Library's Ask the Reference Enquiry Team
Copyediting-L (editors)
Editorial Freelancers Association
Electric Editors Grapevine discussion group (editors)
Google's curated list of discussion groups
Library and Archives Canada's Ask Us a Question service
Society for Editors and Proofreaders
Society for Technical Communication
Society for Technical Communication Accessibility special interest group
Society for Technical Communication Technical Editing special interest group
Techwhirl (technical writers)
Acronym Finder (Web-based)
American Geological Institute dictionary for Earth and environmental science (Mac, Windows)
Azmanam’s chemistry dictionary (Mac, Windows)
BusinessDictionary.com (Web-based)
Dictionarynet (Web-based)
Exclusion dictionary: list of words to get you started
Free Online Dictionary of Computing (Web-based)
John Petrie’s custom scientific dictionaries
Merriam-Webster’s unabridged and collegiate dictionaries (Web-based)
OneLook multi-dictionary search (Web-based)
Oxford Dictionaries (Web-based)
Stedman’s medical and pharmaceutical spellchecker
Spellex dictionaries (some for Mac, all for Windows)
StyleGuard software for Associated Press style in Microsoft Word (Mac, Windows)
Whitesmoke (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)
Wordnik (Web-based)
American Medical Association style guide
Apple Publications style guide
Appleyard (David) World of English
Brians (Paul) Common Errors in English UsageCapital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing
Council of Science Editors style guide
Hemingway style checker (Mac, Windows)
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors style guide
Modern Language Association (MLA) style guide
NASA style guide for history authors and editors
Oxford Dictionaries grammar guide
Purdue University’s online writing lab
Rensselaer Center for Communication Practices Resources for Writers
Reuters Handbook of Journalism
Science terminology custom dictionaries (U.S. and U.K.; John Petrie)Straus (Jane) The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
The Tongue Untied guide to grammar, punctuation, and style
University of North Carolina’s Writing Center
U.S. Government Printing Office style manual
William Strunk’s classic The Elements of Style
Adding menus to Windows Word:
ClassicMenu (Word 2007 and later)
UbitMenu (Word 2007 and later)
Editorium Author Tools Template (Mac, Windows)
Editor’s Toolkit Plus (Mac, Windows)
EditTools (Windows)
Jack Lyon’s WordCounter utility
Jack Lyon's Using found macros article
PerfectIt (Mac, Windows)
CNet curated utility software download site (Mac, Windows)
Distributed Proofreaders proofreading fonts (Web-based)
Ergociser (the) (Windows)
GraphPad t-test for statistical significance (Web-based)
MacUpdate curated software downloads (Mac)
Pinboard (Web-based)
Pinterest (Web-based)
Stretchware (Mac, Windows)
World Timeserver (look up times in other parts of the world)
Aerospace and Defence Industries Association ASD Simplified Technical English specification
Applescript tutorials (Mac):
Applescript: the language of automation
Introduction to AppleScript: What you can do with AppleScript, OS X's scripting language
Apple's Applescript language guide
Automator tutorials (Mac):
Automator: your personal automation assistant
Character codes (keyboard shortcuts):
ChemSpider chemical structures database
Cornell University Ergonomics Web
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
Docbook XML schema specification
Editing PDF files
Adrienne Montgomerie’s articles on editing in PDF
Katherine O’Moore Klopf’s curated list of tutorials on PDF editing
“Printing Goof Nullifies U.S. Reading Exam”
Techradar’s list of PDF editing options for Windows
Traditional Proofreading in PDF (Planet PDF)
Editorium Web site (Jack Lyon)
Enable Text Subsitutions in Every App (MacWorld)
ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center
Index Academicus list of journal author guidelines
Ingenta Connect journal article search
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Language (locale) codes for Word dictionaries
National Institute for Standards and Technology guide to metric units
National Library of Medicine PubMed biomedical literature database
Paul Beverley’s Macros for Editors
Refdesk curated reference collection
Reverse image-search suggestions
Revision-tracking primer for Word:
Right Angels and Polo Bears (Adrienne Montgomerie)
Save Time by Mastering the Basics (Geoff Hart)
Screenshots
How to take Screenshots in Windows 10 (How-To Geek)
Scripting Windows:
Windows Powershell documentation
Springer-Verlag journals plus the former Kluwer Academic Publishers
Teaching Tips' list of reference sites
Unicode character code lookups:
Alan Wood’s list for all languages
FileFormat.info Unicode Character Search tool
Unicode Organization's language reference
United States Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Library of Congress online catalogue
Visual basic for applications reference (Microsoft)
Wikipedia article on concordances
Wiley journals plus the former Blackwell Publishing
WordTips newsletter (Allen Wyatt)
Although you can run Windows on your Macintosh using Apple’s Bootcamp software, this prevents you from running your Macintosh software simultaneously; you need to reboot your computer each time you want to change operating systems. It’s far more efficient to use software that lets you run both operating systems side by side:
Inertrak (iOs, Mac, Windows)
Officetime (iOs, Mac, Windows)
Personal Timeclock (Windows)
Timeless Time & Expense (Windows)
See also: Reference and information sites
Adobe’s Acrobat web capture tool
Adobe Acrobat help topic “Importing and exporting comments”
Adobe Acrobat help topic “Mark up text with edits”
Alan Wyatt’s macro for determining word frequency
Apple's Voiceover screen-reader software (Mac)
Boeing’s Simplified English Checker
Clipboard replacement utilities (MacWorld's list) (Mac)
Clipboard replacement utilities (Tech Support Alert's list) (Windows)
Concorder Pro (Mac)
Dragon speech recognition software
EasyCalculation.com’s hexadecimal to decimal or binary converter (Web-based)
EasyFind tool for searching your computer (Mac)
Everything search engine for searching your computer (Windows)
Hyper STE (simplified technical English) checker (Windows)
JAWS screen-reader software (Windows)
Keyboard Maestro (Mac)
Macro Express (Windows)
MegaReplacer (Windows versions of Word)
Microsoft’s XMLDiff utility or try here (Windows)
Recover corrupted Word files using GetData’s Repair My Word
Scrible web annotation software (Web-based)
Simple Concordance Program (Mac, Windows)
Simusearch Web searches from within Word (Windows)
StuffIt compression software (Mac, Windows)
Techscribe’s Term Checker for Simplified Technical English (browser-based)
Text-expansion utilities (Lifehacker’s list) (Windows)
Text-expansion utilities (Macworld's list) (Mac)
Use your iPad as a keyboard for your computer:
Air Keyboard (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)
RemoteMouse (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows)
WinHotKey for customizing windows keyboard shortcuts
Windows 10 “Hear text read aloud with Narrator”
Adobe Contribute (Mac, Windows)
Adobe Dreamweaver (Mac, Windows)
Adobe InCopy (Mac, Windows)
Adobe InDesign (Mac, Windows)
BBEdit text editor (Mac)
emacs text editor (Mac, Windows)
EtherPad (Mac, Windows)
FrameMaker (Windows)
Google Drive/Docs (Mac, Windows)
LibreOffice (Mac, Windows)
Lyx software for mathematical typesetting (Mac, Windows)
LyXConverter for Word (Windows versions of Word)
MadCap Contributor (Windows)
MadCap Flare (Windows)
Microsoft Sharepoint (Mac with Office 35, Windows)
Microsoft Word 365 (Mac, Windows)
OpenOffice (Mac, Windows)
PleaseReview (Mac, Windows)
SubEthaEdit (Mac)
TextWrangler text editor: replaced by BBEdit text editor (Mac)
WebWorks ePublisher for Word and FrameMaker (Windows)
WordPerfect (Windows)
WordPress blogging software
XMetal reviewer now part of XMetal Author (Windows)
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