June 8, 2010
Wordy for editors

www.wordy.com Being an editor with Wordy means working from a standardised set of guidelines so that you know exactly what to do, and the client knows exactly what to expect from your work. Beyond that, there are a few things that are nice to know before starting out with Wordy. In My Wordy, you can access the jobs you are currently working on, any open jobs that may be waiting from customers, and closed jobs – that is, jobs you have delivered to customers and that are finished and paid for. Under open jobs you can see information about each job, such as word count, deadline, your earnings and the job’s file format. Wordy handles Microsoft Word .doc and .docx, rich text format (.rtf), plain text (.txt) and Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) files. Also, as Wordy is integrated into content management systems (or CMS systems), you will work on HTML jobs. Plain text and HTML jobs are done in Wordy’s own on-screen editor, but the workflow for acquiring a job is exactly the same for all jobs on Wordy. Accept the order, and you are ready to go. For .txt or plain text jobs, you are welcome to copy the text to your own word processor and paste it back into the window when you have finished the work. For HTML jobs, all editing must be done in the on-screen editor. The on-screen editor automatically saves your work and tracks changes. So, unless you have comments on the text, simply edit as you would any other job. When you are done, click “Finish editing and deliver order”; the customer is …
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