Gunner b 1 2 ,
I have to totally agree with you, prior to every posting I find it best to jot a rough idea of what I wish to say on a piece of scrap paper. I find using different coloured pens for differing levels of importance of points helps should I need to reduce the content at the review stage. Having made a rough outline I then make a draft copy. This I read (twice) to ensure the content is substantial, poignant and concise (no time for drivel or inefficacy here). I then run every word through
www.thesaurus.com and if there is another word with more letters I change them.
Having completed the Planning stage I then move on to the Review stage. Here my draft is sent to my secretary who will type it up on her computer and forward it to me via e-mail as a word document, I always insist however that she returns to me via internal mail my original draft and a hardcopy of the word document .I then open the document and run Microsoft spell checker and grammar check, cut and paste it, then run it through
www.spellcheck.net just in case Microsoft should miss anything.
Then the execution stage, I cut the document and place it as the pprune posting, all I then need to do is sit back for the review stage in absolute confidence that nobody would be able to criticize my grammar or spelling. This makes me feel not only smug but quite superior to mere mortals who type recklessly and express themselves in their own words.