Friday, September 8, 2017

Beware - this is a Sales Pitch

PerfectIt is a software that is supposed to ensure consistency in your documents and, today, I received an email advertising its merits:

Proofreading Software for Professionals

Everyone Needs an Editor!

To celebrate eight years of PerfectIt, we’re sharing some of the research we carried out on thousands of documents. Whether you're checking manually or with software, here are some of the most important mistakes to check for:

It was interesting to look at what they found and yet, not a surprise. They discovered, essentially, there is little consistency within documents and also that some common mistakes are consistently made. Look at the links for more information. While I think it's a great concept, I'm not rushing out to purchase the software, which if I did purchase it, it would cost as follows:


That's assuming I would be the only person at work to use it. But no, I'm not buying it.

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