In order to do labour-intensive editing and proofreading tasks quickly, if you're using Word then you really need some programs called "macros".
Word has its own built-in programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and a macro is a program created for VBA.
An example of a mundane but important task might be to search for all the examples of words ending in ize and ise and make them all the same.
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