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You can now have green squigglies under your copy when you violate AP Stylebook edicts

LINK: www.ap.org ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | December 15, 2011

Okay, maybe the squigglies won’t be green, but it’s automated checking for AP style:

The new plug-in software, AP StyleGuard, powered by Equiom Linguistic Labs Inc., is similar in functionality to Microsoft Word’s spelling and grammar proofing tools and intuitively checks Word documents for AP Stylebook’s fundamental spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style guidelines.

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