The fastest way to create style sheets and house styles for PerfectIt
Log each style decision once. Styleworks makes it ready for PerfectIt.
Do any of these sound familiar?
Your style sheet lives in Word or a notebook.
You check for style inconsistencies manually across long documents.
You worry something important may slip through during manual checking.
Your team keeps drifting from house style.
You’d like PerfectIt to apply your styles automatically, but setup feels difficult or time-consuming.
Checking documents against your style takes valuable time
Document production is faster and more complex than ever before. More revisions, more collaborators, tighter deadlines. That makes manual consistency checking slower and riskier.
PerfectIt is the leading product for checking document consistency against style sheets and house styles among professional editors, medical and technical communicators, proposal professionals, and others.
But turning preferences into automated checks has traditionally meant building lists of find-and-replace terms line by line. That extra step is laborious and time-consuming.
Styleworks takes care of that work.
How Styleworks works
1. Log style decisions as you edit
Record terminology choices, capitalization, formatting preferences, and other editorial decisions the way that you normally do.
2. Styleworks prepares them for PerfectIt
Styleworks turns those decisions into the preferences that PerfectIt can apply across the document, including plurals, verb forms, and related terms. No more writing out lists of find-and-replace terms. You log each style preference once, and Styleworks gets it ready for PerfectIt to apply across your documents.
3. Stay consistent without extra work
Your style decisions can be checked automatically instead of relying on memory or manual searches.
Built for the way editors actually work
Editors working on Macs
For the first time, Mac users can build custom styles that PerfectIt can apply automatically.
For independent editors
A style sheet records the editorial decisions made during an edit. It helps you communicate those decisions to the author and publisher, and keep track of them throughout the edit.
Styleworks lets you log those decisions as you work and makes them ready for PerfectIt to check that writing is consistent.
You can also maintain separate styles for different clients or projects, all in one place.
In-house editors and teams
House styles help organizations maintain a consistent voice across contributors.
Styleworks provides a simple way to record those decisions and prepare them so PerfectIt can apply them consistently across documents for your entire team.
Why we built Styleworks for editors
Editors already keep style sheets and house styles. But those style sheets usually live in documents or notebooks and aren’t automatically checked across the text.
Styleworks closes that gap.
It lets editors record style decisions once and have PerfectIt apply them automatically. Editing stays the same. Consistency becomes faster and easier to apply across every document.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Styleworks is a free tool for editors that helps turn style sheets and house styles into checks that PerfectIt can apply across a document.
Editors log style decisions as they edit. Styleworks prepares those decisions so PerfectIt can apply them automatically.
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A style sheet records the editorial decisions made during an edit.
Editors use style sheets to track terminology, capitalization, abbreviations, formatting preferences, and other style choices.
Styleworks allows editors to log these decisions in one place as they go along and prepares them so PerfectIt can apply them across documents.
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A house style describes the language and formatting conventions an organization wants all documents to follow.
Styleworks helps teams record those decisions and prepares them so PerfectIt can check documents against them.
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Yes. Styleworks is completely free to use.
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No. You can record your style preferences in Styleworks without a PerfectIt subscription.
You need PerfectIt to run style consistency checks across documents.
If your style is more than 50 lines, you need a PerfectIt Elite subscription or higher to use it in PerfectIt.