Cindy Reeh

@mededitor.bsky.social called it the “playing card” symbol which might be its new name!

I set up a search in my PerfectIt style sheet to find nonbreaking spaces, which don’t crop up too often, but I find it very satisfying to zap those!! This new symbol is a new one for me. I reverse google-searched the image and it still didn’t come up with anything helpful. Odd!

It’s kind of an eerily beautiful photo.

Also, hi Jen! 👋

Oh no! I haven’t gotten out much lately, so I didn’t see this. But there was a large fallen tree blocking the road on Linden. Yikes.

For the record, it’s not a content control box. 🤔 It’s some other mysterious square that doesn’t show up when I copy/paste and is only visible in the reveal formatting view. 🤷‍♀️ It’s not a big deal since it’s basically invisible. I just like to have an exceptionally clean document!

Lovely! 😀

Ah yes, this is what I’ve done with those pesky content control boxes before and it works great. I haven’t been home yet to check and see if that’ll work on the current weird boxes (they look a little different so I’m not sure). But I will try it and report back. 😊😊 Hope you are doing well, Kyra!!

Thank you! I’ve been out and about, but I will try it tonight to see if this works.

I will try that! I forgot about that. I’ve used that in the past for similar oddities.

Actually, I’ll just be deleting it, not replacing it with anything. Either a wildcard search string or just the name of it would be helpful.

Character in Word document that looks like a small square with a larger square around it.

Can someone tell me what this weird square character is called? I want to be able to search for it and replace it with a space. 🙏

You are free to use the word in your own work! I made a different decision.

Also there’s no reason to use gendered language to describe such an thing.

It’s for a global audience of scientists (not all have English as first language) who I think will understand sewer hole better than manhole.

I picked sewer hole. Could also be maintenance hole or utility hole, apparently. #amediting

Had to look up the alternative wording for “manhole.” I’m doing important work here in the editing world, what can I say. 🤷‍♀️

Hi Ellen!! 😀

I’m obsessed with all the Lego plants! I have a Lego bouquet of flowers on my dining room table. This looks like a cute little poinsettia.

Nice to see you, Alicia! It’s been a while! Lovely profile picture. 😊

Nice to see so many editors out there in the Bluesky! 👋

I’d love to be on the second list. Thank you!