Often at work it's easy to miss details when you're staring at the same Excel sheet or Power Point or document (or code) for too long.
We've all seen how effective it can be when you pull someone else to look over your content or just walk through it. You can find errors and often 18pt headline mistakes that you glossed over. But what if no one's around or you don't want to bug someone?
I found a reasonably simple technique that doesn't quite replace another human, but turns out to be pretty good nevertheless. All I do is print the document in PDF (no, not on printer paper) and open the PDF file and go through it. Just the change of look & feel feels like I'm looking at something different, and I almost always find errors I missed the first time.
Try it, might work for you too.
* I don't do that for my blog posts, so don't harangue me for errors in my posts.
We've all seen how effective it can be when you pull someone else to look over your content or just walk through it. You can find errors and often 18pt headline mistakes that you glossed over. But what if no one's around or you don't want to bug someone?
I found a reasonably simple technique that doesn't quite replace another human, but turns out to be pretty good nevertheless. All I do is print the document in PDF (no, not on printer paper) and open the PDF file and go through it. Just the change of look & feel feels like I'm looking at something different, and I almost always find errors I missed the first time.
Try it, might work for you too.
* I don't do that for my blog posts, so don't harangue me for errors in my posts.
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