This has to be one of the easiest to use dialogs I’ve ever encountered. In Figure 1 you can see the options available and a helpful tip. Change it or leave it alone ? it’s your choice. (PerfectIt tells you how many occurrences there are of each.) You simply select an occurrence from the list in the location to check window and you will be taken to the area of your document where it occurs. If consistency in word use (and that includes differences in spelling) was all that PerfectIt did, that would be sufficient to make it a winner for me, however, there are many more checks.įor each inconsistency reported, you can, as I’ve mentioned, set a preference and have PerfectIt change them all, or you can check each one. If you don’t accept the either/or option, you can check each occurrence and decide on the change yourself. Press Fix All and PerfectIt will change all the occurrences to your selected preferred phrase. From my experience, one of the most common inconsistencies is in the use of hyphens.Īs a simple example, if you have both write-up and write up (with and without the hyphen) in your document, PerfectIt will show you where there is an occurrence of each use as shown in Figure 1. It will compare all the words in a Microsoft Word file (no Mac version unfortunately) and report inconsistencies ? which make a document look sloppy. Let me tell you about some of the ways it does that. Anyone who knows me will know that I really appreciate anything that will save me time. The number one reason, for me, is that PerfectIt Version 3 will save me time while making my documents look better than they might be. If you already use PerfectIt, you’ll find the new and improved PerfectIt Version 3 well worth considering. One specific software tool: PerfectIt from Intelligent Editing.

To overcome that shortcoming, and because she doesn’t have anyone to edit her work, she relies on software tools to help her. She gets too involved with the story, rather than looking at the words objectively. She is generally happy with her grammar, and her American spelling, but feels her editing skills are sadly lacking.

Janet Taylor is a technical writer who has no pretensions at all to being an editor.

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