Build styles for PerfectIt on Mac. For the first time.
Already use PerfectIt on Mac? This is what you've been waiting for!
Build and store all your style decisions quickly in one place, then export them to PerfectIt, the document consistency checker trusted by professional editors worldwide, to check documents against those rules in seconds.
Spend less time manually checking terminology, capitalization, and style decisions. Build your style once and let PerfectIt check it automatically.
Free to use on Mac. No technical setup required.
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Does this sound familiar?
Your stylesheet lives in a Word document or notebook
You'd love PerfectIt to apply your styles automatically, but setup felt out of reach on Mac
You check for inconsistencies manually and worry something will slip through
You've tried to build PerfectIt styles before but the process felt too technical or time-consuming
No more manually translating a Word stylesheet into find-and-replace patterns.
How Styleworks works
Log once. Check automatically.
Styleworks replaces the manual step between writing down your style decisions and applying them. Three things happen, and you only do the first one.
You do this
Record your style decisions
Record terminology preferences and style decisions in Styleworks just as you’d note them down anywhere. It fits into how you already work.
Styleworks does this
Styleworks turns them into PerfectIt checks
Styleworks takes each preference and generates all the variations needed to check it automatically including plurals, verb forms, related terms. No writing find-and-replace lists line by line.
PerfectIt does this
PerfectIt checks your documents for consistency with your style rules
PerfectIt, our sister software and the leading document consistency tool, runs your style automatically across the document. Every preference you logged is checked. Nothing relies on memory.
Think of it this way:
Styleworks is where you build your style. PerfectIt is where you apply it.
Styleworks helps you record terminology preferences, capitalization decisions, and other style rules in one place. PerfectIt then checks your documents against those rules automatically.
Before Styleworks, building custom styles for PerfectIt often meant translating style decisions into technical find-and-replace patterns. It was possible, but it took time and expertise, and many editors decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Styleworks removes that barrier. You record your preferences in plain editorial language. Styleworks prepares them for checking, and PerfectIt applies them across your documents.
Together, they give editors a faster, more practical way to create, manage, and apply their style.
Styleworks is free. You'll only need a PerfectIt subscription when you're ready to run checks against your documents.
What is PerfectIt?
PerfectIt is the leading document consistency checker used by professional editors around the world.
It checks spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, abbreviations, terminology, lists, headings, and hundreds of other consistency issues automatically.
Styleworks makes it easy to build custom styles for PerfectIt. Together they give Mac editors a faster way to create, manage, and apply their own style rules.
What you get
How this changes your workflow
Styleworks doesn’t ask you to change how you edit. It changes what happens after you’ve made a decision.
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No technical setup, no Windows required
This is the first time Mac users have been able to build PerfectIt stylesheets directly. Styleworks is designed for editors, not developers. If you can log a preference, you can use it. Finally, a way for Mac editors to enjoy the perks of PerfectIt.
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Stop checking the same things twice
Once a preference is logged, Styleworks remembers it. PerfectIt checks for it. You don’t need to Ctrl+F for it again or, to rely on remembering at the end of a long document.
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Catch what you’d otherwise miss
Manual checking under deadline pressure misses things. Automated checking doesn’t. Your style is applied consistently even on documents you’ve been staring at for hours.
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Keep separate styles for clients or projects
Different clients, different stylesheets and house styles. Styleworks keeps them separate and ready to use whenever you need them. No duplication of effort or rebuilding context at the start of each project. It also gives you a clean record of every editorial decision you make for your projects - ready to share with authors, clients, or collaborators.
The workflow shift
You’ve already done the hard part.
You've already made the decisions.
You've already written the style guide.
You've already recorded the preferences.
Styleworks removes the extra work of turning those decisions into checks that PerfectIt can use.
Works hand in hand with PerfectIt - the standard tool for document consistency
Before
Stylesheet decision across notepads or a document
Manual Ctrl+F at the end of an editing session
Relying on memory right up until deadline
Risk of errors getting through
Mac users locked out of automation
With Styleworks
Log decision and preferences as you edit
Styleworks build the variations of checks
PerfectIt run it all automatically whenever you want to run it
Every document is consistent and builds your reputation
Full Mac support for the first time
Who Styleworks is for
Built for editors who want their style decisions to become working checks.
Styleworks is for you if:
You use style sheets and word lists
You check terminology and consistency manually
You've wanted custom PerfectIt checks but didn't have a Windows machine
Frequently asked questions
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Styleworks is a free tool for editors that helps turn stylesheets 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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Manual checking means scanning back through a document looking for the terms you remember to check. It’s time-consuming, it relies on memory, and under deadline pressure things get missed. Automated checking means PerfectIt scans every word against the decisions you logged in Styleworks without you having to remember what to look for. The quality of the check doesn’t depend on how tired you are or how tight the deadline is.
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Yes. This is the first time Mac users have been able to build styles for PerfectIt directly. Previously, this capability simply didn’t exist on Mac. Styleworks changes that — you can create and manage your stylesheets on Mac, and PerfectIt will check documents against them in Word on Mac or Windows.
Note: PowerPoint on Mac is not included at this stage.
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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 XX lines, you need a PerfectIt Elite subscription or higher.
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Yes, Styleworks is completely free to use.
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A Word stylesheet is a record. It’s useful for you and your clients, but not something that can check a document. Styleworks takes your preferences and prepares them for automated checking, handling all the technical work (variations, verb forms, plurals) that would otherwise require writing find-and-replace patterns line-by-line. The practical difference: your preferences go from written notes to automated checks without any extra translation steps.
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Styleworks is designed to feel like logging preferences not configuring software.
You record editorial decisions the way you normally would, using the language editors already use. There’s no technical setup, no find-and-replace syntax to learn, and no way to break anything. If you can write a stylesheet, you can use Styleworks.
Start building your first style today.
Free to use on Mac. Ready when you are.
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