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Certified DBE/UDBE/WOSB
NAICS Codes 561410, 541430

Specialties

Editing - Technical review and editing of all types of technical and scientific documents.

Formatting - It's more than just "word processing." Advanced features in your everyday software can bring order to chaos. We use the same software you use.

Page Layout - A few design techniques make a technical document easy to look at and reader friendly. Avoid the "ransom note" effect.

Style Guides - Same type style, same font size, same indents, same spellings keep your documents looking professional and polished.

Readability - Rate your documents with a readability formula and know the grade level you're targeting. Make your documents accessible.

Localization - Convert paper sizes, spellings, and word choices to publish the same document in another country.

Fire Alarms

We excel at deadlines!
We have a long-standing (and well-deserved) reputation for getting impossible fire alarm jobs done on time.
We have the expertise and the resources to do the job right the first time.
We have the flexibility to make time available for you and your project.
In 20+ years, we've seen just about everything. Your handwriting doesn't scare us. Your patched up, mashed up, messed up document doesn't intimidate us.
We have the confidence and the experience to stay calm when you aren't.

Do you have a document dilemma?

You copy a section from a previous document, and it ends up with a different fonts and margins.
Big projects and crazy deadlines overwhelm your staff.
Tables look "weird." The decimals and the dollar signs don't line up. The text is too close to the cell lines.
Graphics move around and won't stay next to the text that goes with them. And where did those figure captions go?!
You use a previous document to start a new project, and the name of the previous project ends up in the new final ... on the new client's website. It's embarrassing!
You're a consultant, and you're good at what you do. It's efficient to write reports on your computer. But it's just not fair to charge clients your consulting rate to fumble around with word processing. And when you're done, the report really doesn't look as good as it should.
When you add a new section, all the exhibit numbers after that one need to be updated. Sometimes they get missed.
You need to do tables in Excel and include them in a Word document for printing. But the formatting never matches.

Here's how we can help ...

We make you look good on paper!
Our software is the same as yours. We use what you choose - MS Word, Adobe InDesign, PowerPoint, WordPerfect.
We match your format, style guides, fonts, word lists, and file naming preferences.
We test file transfers, email attachments, printing results before the deadlines get tight. You'll know the mechanics are in order.
We're experts with Word, InDesign, Acrobat, WordPerfect, PowerPoint ... so you don't have to be.
We know how to tame your documents with running headers/footers, automatic section numbers, page numbers, cross-references, paragraph styles.
If that building square footage changes in Chapter 1, we'll make sure it changes in Chapter 3 and in the table on page 72.
We'll automate the table of contents, exhibit numbers, cross-references. No more tedious manual comparison of page numbers with heading names in the text.
We know how to stop the graphics from moving around and disappearing in Word documents.
You can upload large documents to our dropbox.
We're available for tele-meetings via Skype or GoToMeeting for progress checks and updates.