Writing Confidently

StyleGuard provides you with the power of certainty while you write. Whether it is a way to cite content, refer to a title, or know how a term is being referred to by publishers in general, we believe all that information should be right there with you as you type.

StyleGuard is an innovative, versatile language-quality, linguistics, and communication proofing tool, seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Office. It interactively validates document conformance with published linguistic style guides, and suggests fixes when necessary. StyleGuard ensures writing style compliance and consistency within and across organizations, and complements existing or traditional references such as printed style guides.

How Does StyleGuard Work?

StyleGuard for Microsoft Office is an add-in module, which appears as a new tab at the top of your Microsoft Word desktop application. When StyleGuard is enabled, a side panel appears on the right-hand side of your Word document. As you type into your Word document, StyleGuard analyzes it and will immediately flag any copy that is not in compliance with the style guide(s) you are working with – similar to how the built-in grammar checker currently works.

The side panel will display further details, optional suggestions, and links to additional online information, such as Wikipedia or relevant searches. In addition, StyleGuard enables you to automatically fix potential issues, ignore the issues or add detail information as comments into your document for future review.

StyleGuard Applications

StyleGuard can be used for a variety of different applications. For example, you can use it to write a press release or newspaper copy requiring conformity to The Associated Press style. More than 4,500 rules have been coded to enable authors and writers using Microsoft Word to check the compliance of their copy with the latest AP Stylebook.

StyleGuard Features

With the Associated Press Style Collection, StyleGuard:

1. Helps you to avoid using redundant words or over-used words.
2. Helps you to catch capitalization and punctuation issues.
3. Catches issues that escape the spell and grammar checkers in Microsoft® Word.
4. Helps you to identify issues such as "Should this be one word, two words, or hyphenated"
5. Provides common unit conversions within the document.
6. Provides possible abbreviations and checks for correct abbreviation rules.

 

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP or Greater
• Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010
• Internet Connection