Keep longer sentences only after you’ve cut all the words you can and experimented with breaking the sentence up. A well-formed longer sentence may read just fine. You don’t have to know anything about macros to do this I’m about to walk you through the steps. A macro is a chunk of code, some lines of text sitting quietly in a small file, waiting for someone to run it so that it can tell Word to do something. Use Microsoft Word to turn all your long sentences red so that they jump out at you, like this:
And do yourself a favor-use technology to help. Do your readers a favor and keep most of your sentences under 30 words. Long sentences, as you know, can make reading a slog.
