A gallery of images from Dallas 

Patricia Marroquin/Los Angeles Times This grand staircase went to the largest gathering of copy editors in the history of  earth.	Susan Abe/ACES Online The ACES registration desk at Dallas' Union Station was busy throughout the conference.
Susan Abe/ACES Online The ACES registration desk at Dallas' Union Station was a beehive of activity.	Bill Wampler/Houston Chronicle Even during breaks, editors went back to their favorite activities--eating while reading a newspaper.
Bill Wampler/Houston Chronicle Anne Brill and Joe Calderon--doing his Jack Benny imitation--discussed the basics of Web  operations.	Bill Wampler/Houston Chronicle John McIntyre leads a discussion on language and editing.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Yvette Walker of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star discusses journalism credibility during a session Friday.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Craig Branson of the American Society of Newspaper Editors holds up a copy of the group's "Perspectives of the Public and the Press" report on journalism credibility during the credibility session.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Yvette Walker of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, Addie Rimmer of the Detroit Free Press and Jay Goley of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune discuss newspaper credibility during the session.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Editors crowded in to the Inside Readers Heads session that brought non-journalists to the conference for their perspectives on headlines and their meaning.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Alexander Cruden of the Detroit Free Press leads the Inside Readers Heads session that brought non-journalists to the conference for their perspectives on headlines and their meaning.	Bill Wampler/Houston Chronicle Deirdre Goebel Edgar brought together a crowd of copy chiefs.
Patricia Marroquin/Los Angeles Times Paula LaRocque of The Dallas Morning News leads a session on the secrets of good line and copy editing.	Patricia Marroquin/Los Angeles Times Paula LaRocque of The Dallas Morning News leads a session on the secrets of good line and copy editing.
Patricia Marroquin/Los Angeles Times Bill Walsh of The Washington Post leads a session called Smart Editors, Poor Choices.	Patricia Marroquin/Los Angeles Times Bill Walsh of The Washington Post leads  his session on  the more subtle errors common to newspaper writing.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Dallas' Union Station made an elegant setting for the convention and banquet.	Susan Abe/ACES Online ACES President Pam Robinson, a news editor for the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post  News Service, makes the introductions at the banquet.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Dallas' Union Station made an elegant setting for the convention and banquet.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Keynote speaker Molly Ivins spoke of editing, writing and George W. Bush's alleged cocaine use.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Annalisa Burgos of the University of California-Los Angeles and Royce Hall, intern at the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News and one of four initial ACES scholarship winners, dine during the opening reception.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Liisa May of Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) and Jean Shea of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis enjoy refreshments during the reception.
Susan Abe/ACES Online From left, Vada Crosby and Vivian Dennis  of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Michael Prager of The Boston Globe and Vincent Tuss of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald enjoy some time together during the reception.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Glen Boisseau Becker and Joe Levine, both of PC Magazine stand talking at the reception.
Susan Abe/ACES Online John Roby amuses his table mates Angela Porter, right, and Michael Hotchkiss and Kirstin McCudden. All are from the University of Missouri at Columbia's journalism school.	Susan Abe/ACES Online Becky Williams of The Dallas Morning News and Juston Jones of Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) keep their beer cold while smiling.
Susan Abe/ACES Online Anne Ferguson-Rohrer of The Washington Post, Mimi Burkhardt of The Providence (R.I.) Journal and Jerry Sass of The Oregonian in Portland chat during the reception.	Susan Abe/ACES Online ACES raised more than $4,000 at its second annual auction. Among the items available were these original comic strip panels.
Susan Abe/ACES Online The $4,000 raised -- which goes toward ACES educational efforts, including the scholarships -- was aided by the shark-like frenzy of bidders.