Authors often use some interesting but incorrect formatting codes and are inconsistent in their style choices. They use color codes. They use straight quotation marks rather than curved ones [" "]. They use the wrong codes for left and right margins, justification, spacing, character style, etc. They use spaces instead of tabs or centering codes. They add extra lines between paragraphs. What looks good on an 8-1/2" x 11" page does not look good in the smaller window of text allowed by your publisher. All of this has to be corrected and made uniform. Usually this means stripping out the incorrect codes and inserting the correct ones and making the necessary style changes. Often this can be done globally with the "find and replace" feature in WordPerfect, but other times it has to be done one line or paragraph at a time.

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