Category — Tools

Title: PerfectIt
Developed by: Intelligent Editing
Price: 1 License ($90); Bundle of 5 licenses ($250); Bundle of 20 licenses ($650); Site license ($1,490)
Website: http://www.intelligentediting.com/default.aspx
Reviewer: Eddie Gear

PerfectIt is an excellent tool for users of the Microsoft Office Word application especially writers, editors, and others who are in the field of authoring and who need an easy-to-use proof reading tool. Although PerfectIt does not offer spell check or grammar check options, it includes several key tests that help you to create professional looking documents. PerfectIt can be easily installed in MS 2000, 2003, XP and 2007 as add-ins.

You can create styles by formatting text and base a style on the formatted text. If you want a higher degree of control over style creation, you might want to consider creating styles using the New Style dialog box. By using the New Style dialog box, you can easily incorporate alignment, paragraph spacing, indents, line spacing, font colors, and many more into your style.

To create a new style using the New Style dialog box, follow the steps below:

A writer who is required to format a MS Word document might find this piece of code very useful. This has helped me a lot in the past and I would like to share it with others as well. The exact procedure to use the code is mentioned below. In simple words what it does is that, if you have text in a Word document with specific style applied to it that would like removed, this code would do that for you in a matter of seconds. This tool is only for subscribers, and you can download the template with the code from the member’s area.

Microsoft Word is an industry standard word processing tool that is most widely used in in the field of technical writing. MS Word is most often used to prepare manuals, process guides, procedures, proposals and others documents. Every company has a brand name associated to it and to make their documentation unique, they use their own style and format to prepare documents.

In one of my recent observation I came across a tech writer who was trying to over ride a built-in style but was not able to do so. This post is for all those technical writers who use custom styles and would like to remove the build in styles. Following the below mentioned procedure will help you avoid MS Word built-in styles like Heading 7, Heading 8 and Heading 9 for example.

Microsoft Word has an excellent built-in feature. This allows the user to view the statistics of the document he is working on. Managing the overall content of the writing style is an important part of the writing process. For example, students might need to write a paper/thesis with a minimum number of words. To encourage students to increase the complexity of their writing, you might want to ascertain the reading level of a document. Word contains the statistics feature that meets these needs.

During the course of your work you may be required to prepare and submit both technical and non-technical reports. Examples of such reports include annual report, audit report, project proposals, tender documents and journals. This article focuses and briefly examines the common features and conventions used by technical writers to prepare these reports.

Components of a report

Depending on the purpose of the report be it technical or non-technical the report may include the following components.

1. Title page
2. Disclaimer
3. Abstract (optional)
4. Acknowledgment
5. Table of contents
6. Table of figures and tables
7. Introduction

You can create styles by formatting text and base a style on the formatted text. If you want a higher degree of control over style creation, you might want to consider creating styles using the New Style dialog box. The New Style dialog box helps to easily incorporate alignment, paragraph spacing, indents, line spacing, font colors, and many more into your style. To create a new style using the New Style dialog box, follow the steps below:

1. Click the Styles and Formatting button on the Formatting toolbar to display the Styles and Formatting task pane or select Format a Styles and Formatting, and then click the New Style button from the styles and formatting task pane. The New Style dialog box appears.