ClearEdits Product Details

Features:

ClearEdits 3.0 includes many new features. Among them:

• User–defined edits (My Edits)
• Saved ClearScores history
• Option to assess only a selected section of a document
• Improved rules, fewer false positives
• Option to use British spelling

ClearEdits works seamlessly with Microsoft® Word and Outlook®. First use Word’s spelling and grammar checkers to correct your spelling and grammar. Then use ClearEdits for editorial suggestions to make your writing clear, concise, and precise.

ClearEdits comes with many categories of editors—a few described below—allowing users to tailor the software to best meet their needs. And now users can add elements from their personal or corporate style preferences with My Edits, making ClearEdits even more powerful.

• Unnecessary words (to cut). Unnecessary words draw a reader’s attention from the important words and ideas.
• Dubious words (to change). Dubious (abstract) words or phrases are less effective than words or phrases that are more concrete, more familiar, or more standard.
• Overweight words (to lighten). Overweight words obscure. Lightening the text can give prominence to important words and ideas.
• Weak verbs (to strengthen). Weak verbs—idle, common verbs such as do, have, make, provide, and serve—often supplant a working verb, which becomes a noun. ClearEdits suggest transforming that noun or another word later in the sentence into a stronger verb.
• “–ion” words words (to switch to verbs or concrete nouns). Words ending in “–ion” often mark phrases that have manipulated a simple verb into a cumbersome noun construction. For example, ClearEdits suggests changing “The repetition of a word increases its power in the sentence” to “Repeating a word increases its power in the sentence.”
• Compare seeming synonyms. Seeming synonyms are often–misused words. ClearEdits helps you select the right word for your intended meaning.
• Flag too many “ands.” Sentences with many “ands” could be too long or too complicated. ClearEdits inserts a comment at the end of sentences that deserve a second look.
• Vector edits. Vector edits direct you to words and suffixes that signal some of the most common changes to consider in your writing. They point you to and, of, which, –ed, and –ion. When combined with the standard edits, vector edits suggest nearly 90% of the changes that experienced editors make in a first editorial pass, before getting down to the substance.

After ClearEdits has analyzed your document, it will intelligently summarize your performance in the five Core Edits categories. ClearScores are normalized for document length and calibrated on hundreds of documents to yield meaningful and consistent results. ClearScores can be saved to easily track progress.

Customize ClearEdits

Some writers use fatty sentences. Others use long words where shorter ones will do. Still other writers suffer from both these problems and more. ClearEdits can search for the problems that plague your writing most, saving time and effort. You can also customize the colors and animation ClearEdits uses to mark up your document—thus providing immediate visual cues.

And now with ClearEdits 3.0 writers can use My Edits to add elements from their personal or corporate style preferences, making ClearEdits even more powerful. With the new version writer can also assess only the highlighted part of a document and use British spelling.

System Requirements:

ClearEdits 3.0 works on the following Microsoft® operating systems: Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® Me, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP. ClearEdits runs on Microsoft® Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, Outlook® 2002, and Outlook® 2003. ClearEdits uses about 10 megabytes of hard drive space.

Minimum system requirements

• Pentium or Pentium Pro, AMD, or 100 percent Intel compatible processor running at 200 MHz.
• 64 megabytes of random access memory (RAM).
• Monitor screen area set at 800 x 600 pixels.

• 100 percent Intel compatible processor running at 500 MHz or faster.
• 128 megabytes of random access memory (RAM).
• Monitor screen area set at 800 x 600 pixels, or higher.