Electronic House Style

Introduction

The Electronic House Style is a premium service that guarantees all staff use a consistent style for product names, dates, titles and other standards set by your organization.

The spell-check in your word processor is a useful tool to pick up typing errors and spelling mistakes. But a spell-check can miss many errors, especially inconsistency of product names, dates and so on. Does your house style recommend 23 June, June 23, 23rd June or June 23rd? Does your house style prefer Washington D.C. or Washington DC? Do you want to use a house style to discourage people from using industry jargon by recommending replacing encash with cash in or replacing system performance indicators with performance targets?

We can code StyleWriter to check thousands of your house-style rules to help every employee write consistently and accurately. Here’s just one example. A finance company had a product called: Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan. The correct form needed a capital letter in three places, lowercase for the other letters, a hyphen and an apostrophe in the correct position. Staff wrote the phrase many ways and each time StyleWriter found the mistake and suggested the correct form.

Mistake Found
Low-cost Home Buyers’ Plan
Low-Cost Homebuyer’s Plan
LOW-COST HOMEBUYER’S PLAN
Low-cost Homebuyer’s plan
Low-cost Homebuyers Plan

StyleWriter’s Correction
Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan
Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan
Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan
Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan
Low-cost Homebuyers’ Plan

Such inconsistencies or mistakes are difficult to spot and laborious to look for in any document. StyleWriter is the only program you can use to set an Electronic House Style with an unlimited number of rules. StyleWriter, with the Electronic House Style built in, guarantees all your documents are clear and consistent across the organization.

You can order our Software for Writers CD which includes a demonstration of the Electronic House Style on CD.

Click here to contact us about arranging a House Style for your organization.