Guess what I'm doing today?

[lagilman]

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I've had excellent CEs before.  I've had mediocre/mostly harmless ones before.  I've never had one that changed words to WRONG usages, had no idea about basic epic fantasy terminology (and failed to look it up), AND rewrote random sentences not because they were incorrect but (apparently) because the CE didn't like them - and then chirpily asked "ok?"  No.  NOT OKAY.

I should be done with this by now, not barely 1/4 of the way through.  Your job is supposed to be to make things cleaner, not muck them up.


[and yes, my editor has been informed that I am Not Thrilled.  But the damage has been done]

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I have so been there and done that, worn out my stetting-pencil...

Right now, I am a little flummoxed by receipt of a CEM which is just an electronic document with no tracked changes, no comments, no indication of what has been changed and what not. Am I supposed to remember? Or to compare it word by word with my original? Or - this, I presume - just skim through it and let it pass...?

[ubiquitous-a.livejournal.com]

This drives me nuts as well. There is a way to compare two Word docs, but it's still a PITA.

[lagilman]

Oh FFS. I'd refuse delivery and demand the marked-up version.

[goingferal.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty easy way to compare two Word document versions--in Word2007 under Review then Compare.