Note: The serial comma feature in P3 is not activated out of the box. P3 will systematically identify places in your writing where you may need to insert the serial comma. Nearly impossible to catch them all manually? I think so. In the Italics test, P3 will identify certain foreign words and phrases and allow you to decide how and when a word will be italicized:ĭo you use the serial comma, or Oxford comma? If you do, an editor will check that you’re using it consistently throughout your book. For example, some style guides state that you italicize less common foreign words and phrases. There are rules about how italics are used.

I don’t really need to say how much time that can save, do I? Italics Test P3 will find open quotes and brackets and create a list of them so you can systematically close them up. It’s not uncommon for writers to forget to close quotations or brackets. Of the new tests available in P3, the following tests can be especially useful to writers, editors, and proofreaders who want to take some of the grunt work out of self-editing and proofreading: Brackets and Quotations Left Open Test P3 has added new “tests” that you can run on a document in order to check for inconsistencies. P3 is wide and deep, and the new tab goes a long way toward encouraging the exploration of features you might otherwise not notice. That’s nice because many of P3’s features are no longer buried - they’re laid out in Word’s ribbon for the user to see. When you install P3, you’ll notice it has its own tab in Microsoft Word: PerfectIt Pro 3 (P3) is designed to work with Microsoft Word - the tool of choice for professional editors and proofreaders. In this post, I describe a few features that I think will be helpful for editors and proofreaders - and authors interested in learning how to at least partially automate some editing tasks. Many excellent features-such as the style sheet builder-remain, but new features add even more value to this proofreading favourite. PerfectIt Pro, a popular copyediting and proofreading tool, has been updated to include new and improved features.

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