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Edits, quality control, and brand compliance

A deep-dive into the types of change that FirstEdit can do for you.

What kinds of house style rules can FirstEdit enforce?

We are constantly updating FirstEdit with new rules and new variations to help it enforce more aspects of organizational house styles. A quick summary of some of the house style rules that it can e...
What does FirstEdit change, and what does it leave alone?

The guiding principle behind FirstEdit is restraint. It only makes changes where it has very high confidence the change is correct. Everything else is either flagged as a comment or left entirely f...
What does the output from FirstEdit look like?

You can send FirstEdit a Word document or plain text. Word documents FirstEdit can make changes in the Word documents for you. Then it returns the document with all changes tracked. Anywhere that F...
Where does FirstEdit fit in the document production process?

FirstEdit is designed to fit after a document has been drafted but before a human reviewer opens it. FirstEdit ensures the text that reaches your review team is clean of mechanical house style, ter...
What formats does FirstEdit work with?

FirstEdit works with plain text and with Microsoft Word format. FirstEdit returns documents in the same format that you provide. If you're working in Microsoft Word then FirstEdit returns documents...