With the edited and formatted copy in place, Reinertson moved to cover design, copy editing, and formatting.

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Documents go through many stages, from researching ideas, to outlines, to collaboration, to review, copy editing, approval and publication.

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And proofreading is perhaps the least important purpose of copy editing.

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If we're performing a job that requires accuracy and focus (say, copy editing a manuscript), we should seek out confined spaces with a red color scheme.

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Liz returns to the living room with Fran, whose gray streak, she learns, is natural and who works at home during school hours, copy editing and proofreading documents for a legal firm.

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What kinds of news organizations tend to be big, have lots of writers and bureaus all over the map, use formal language with high standards of copy editing, and have been around long enough to have established reputations?

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Not only do you have to find an excellent translator, one who works well in both languages and is a stylist to boot (or who can work in tandem with someone else, like the excellent Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky do in Russian), but the copy editing and proof reading take on a new layer of work.

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Also for the copy-editing geeks out there Docs will soon add the ability to nix smartquotes: those quotes that curve around the words in question.

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But before I hit the button to send my editors every column, I print out a copy and do the editing and proofreading by hand, on sheets of paper, with a pen.

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