As it is now, proofreading a document on screen is very difficult. I
currenly print out a document, proof it, mark all the errors, and then go
back and fix it. This is both wasteful of time, ink, paper, et ergo money.

I think it would be enormously helpful if you could preview a document in
proofread mode. What I'm suggesting is a virtual rulter, or other inch deep
straight line (pure black would work fine, there is no need for mesaurement
marks) which spanned the document and could be moved down line by line via
the enter or the down arrow key.



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Hi Helen

Helen Claire wrote:
As it is now, proofreading a document on screen is very difficult. I
currenly print out a document, proof it, mark all the errors, and then go
back and fix it. This is both wasteful of time, ink, paper, et ergo money.

I think it would be enormously helpful if you could preview a document in
proofread mode. What I'm suggesting is a virtual rulter, or other inch deep
straight line (pure black would work fine, there is no need for mesaurement
marks) which spanned the document and could be moved down line by line via
the enter or the down arrow key.

Proofreading on paper will probably be easier for quite a while.

OTOH, if you really are hunting spelling errors only, I suggest you
switch to normal view, zoom to, say, 200 % or even higher, and make the
text wrap-to-window (IIRC Tools | Options | View when in Normal view).
That way, you get as short lines as you want (like newspaper columns).
If your line height is set reasonably well, your eye should have less
trouble skipping or repeating lines anymore.

HTH
Robert
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