Discussion:Copyedit a wikiHow Article

I love it :)

I think the preferred spelling is copy edit or copy-edit although one word is OK too. See links:

http://journalism.about.com/od/copyessentials/ht/copyedit.htm
http://grammar.about.com/od/terms/a/copyedterms.htm
http://www.apstylebook.com/ask_editor.php
MA

In the first paragraph, the word 'ridden' is used. Is that correct? It seems to me that it should be 'riddled', but it might be the word meant to be used.

TT

A quick Google search shows that "riddled with errors" is much more common than "ridden with errors". I'll change it.

Where's the Spell check button nowdays?

Great article! It's really helpful and explanatory!

hi

I like to be lazy and do some formatting then put it in word. It gets mistakes you may not notice.

My computer is old, and I don't have MS Word.

I guess....

Whoever put in the quote:

Fix capitalization errors. Note that if there's a chunk of text written in all caps, you can convert it all to lower case (or have only the first letter of every word capitalized) easily in most word processing programs. In MS Word, for example, press Shift + F3 for all lowercase, and press it again for first letter capitalization. Fixing the text from that is usually less time-consuming than rewriting it.

I'd like to thank them for writing this. I didn't know you could press Shift F3 in MS Word to fix this. Thanks a million.

I didn't either!!! Wonder if that will work in Open Office!

Thanks for wrtiing such an easy-to-understand article on this topic.