SmartEdit

SmartEdit is an advanced software application whose purpose is to help you verify text documents for errors, such as repeated phrases, incorrect usage of punctuation marks, and misspelled words.

The tool sports a ribbon-like interface just like the one adopted by Microsoft Word.  You can access a help manual and watch video tutorials if you cannot manage to set up the dedicated parameters on your own.

Several viewing options enable you to zoom in or out of documents, opt for a simple or document preview mode, and set the background color of the pages.

SmartEdit gives you the possibility to verify DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, or plain text files. You can write the text directly in the main window or paste the information from the clipboard.

You can personalize the scanning process for errors by making the utility check dialog/prose and look for adverb usage, repeated phrases and words, possible misused words, cliché usage, redundancies, proper nouns, acronyms, foreign phrase, and profanity/swear words.

The application is able to generate lists with all the aforementioned issues and provides information about the current document, such as number of words, characters and pages, quotes, and dashes.

What’s more, you are allowed to jump to the next or previous result, add results to an exclusion list, and create a list with words and phrases that are monitored.

The tool comes packed with a word processor that allows you to perform basic clipboard actions (cut, copy, paste), delete text, undo or redo your actions, modify the font, size and color, adjust the alignment, perform searches, insert hyperlinks and symbols, break pages at the selected positon, as well as print or save the document to a Word file on your computer.

SmartEdit helps you print and export all results or only the current list to PDF, HTML, XLS, or plain text file format.

In conclusion, SmartEdit proves to be of great help in case you need to check your documents for all sorts of errors before turning them in. The straightforward layout makes it suitable for rookies and professionals alike.