Proofreading, Copy-Editing, Reformatting Services, Berkshire

Whatever you've written, you'll want the reader to focus on your message - not on your mistakes.  So it's essential that your text is spot on!  You can't rely on your printer to check it... it's down to you.
It can take as little as 15 minutes to proofread your text...  A worthwhile investment, don't you think?

  

Websites, marketing materials, reports, affidavits, legal agreements, annual reports, operations manuals, business books, e-books, essays, dissertations and more...

We proofread & copy-edit all forms of online and offline text:

• websites including link testing
  
• brochures & marketing materials
• business plans & proposals
• annual reports and accounts
  
• tender documents
• PDF & Word documents including books for print or online publishing
  
• email & printed newsletters
• witness statements & affidavits
• student essays & dissertations
  
• any text that requires accuracy
  

We proofread for:

• spelling
• typing errors
• transposed characters
  
• punctuation
• grammar
• layout
• formatting
  
• consistency
• continuity
• ambiguity
• and the dreaded apostrophe!

We reformat your text using:

• clear & consistent layout
• chapter, subject & subheadings
• contents page, indexing
• bookmarks & hyperlinks
• e-publishing formats
• consistent fonts & language
• paragraph numbering
• bullet points
• page numbering
• headers & footers
  
• consistent spacing & margins

We can even check that your figures cross check and add up!

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How we work

You submit your document to us in Word format.
We proofread the document in "tracking" mode.  Straightforward changes such as punctuation are changed. We add notes where we think there is ambiguity or inconsistency and we suggest what you could say instead.
You then go through the amendments, accepting or rejecting changes.  If you don't know how to do this, please enquire.

Here's what some of our proofreading clients say...

"I would highly recommend The Back Office to anyone. I met Barbara several years ago and was so impressed by her professionalism that I contacted her for help with some marketing material that needed improvement and proof reading. The work was turned around extremely quickly and the quality was excellent. I have also used The Back Office for other ad-hoc work and as a sounding board for some ideas and I will continue to do so." 

“Barbara assisted us with a tricky proofreading assignment of a mathematical journal article on inverse design methods for cascades. Barbara's attention to detail and speed meant that we ended up with a text that was error-free and ready for publication. On a personal level, Barbara is most approachable and amenable. She instils great confidence in her abilities thanks to her knowledge and professional approach to business. Top qualities: Personable, Good Value, On Time"
Translation Company, Berkshire

"The Back Office proof read a document for us at short notice. The document was written by a group of people, so contained a variety of styles. Back Office did a good job of bringing the various styles together and correcting spelling and grammar. This was all done quickly and at a reasonable price." 
Stuart Barry, Digital Dimensions Ltd -  proofreading a Berkshire village plan