Planning

Content

Structure

Design

Expression

Evaluation

Abbreviations

Accents

Acronyms

Ampersands &

and/or

Articles

At signs @

bi-

Capital letters and cases

Compass points

Compound words

Conjunctions

Contractions

etc

Foreign words

Hash signs #

Initialisms

Latin words

Lower case

Parts of speech

per

Plurals

Scientific terms

Sentence case

Shortened forms

Spelling

Title case

Upper case

Ability

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Addresses

Age

Diversity and inclusion

Forms of address

Gender

Government

Organisation names

Pronouns

Salutations

Street addresses

they

Cardinal numbers

Dates

Decimal numbers

Mathematical symbols

Measurements

Money

Number formatting

Numbering systems

Numbers

Ordinal numbers

per

Percentages %

Phone numbers

Temperatures

Times

Words or numerals

Years

Zero

Accents

Ampersands &

Angle brackets < >

Apostrophes ’

Asterisks *

At signs @

Brackets ( ) [ ] < > { }

Colons :

Commas ,

Curly brackets { }

Dashes - – —

Ellipses …

Em dashes —

En dashes –

Exclamation marks !

Forward slashes /

Full stops .

Hash signs #

Hyphens -

Lists

Mathematical symbols

Question marks ?

Quote marks ‘ ’ “ ”

Round brackets ( )

Semicolons ;

Spaces

Square brackets [ ]

Accessibility in MS Word

Alt text

Bold

Design

Email addresses

Emphasis

Headings

Hyperlinks

Italics

Lists

Quotes

Tables

Underlining

Web addresses

Bibliographies

Case law

Endnotes

Footnotes

In-text citations

Intellectual property

Legislation

Parts of a text

Publication titles

Reference lists

Referencing systems

Subtitles

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