Editing Copy editing (section)

=== On-screen editing ===
Every year, more editing projects are being done on computers and fewer in print. Also, if there is a digital version of a text that the copy editor is editing, the latter can more easily search words, run [[spell checker]]s, and generate clean copies of messy pages. The first thing copy editors must do when editing on screen is to copy the author's files, as the original document must be preserved.<ref name="einsohn2011" />{{rp|7–10}} Each [[word processor|word-processing program]] provides various options for how an editor's markups are shown on screen and on the printout. On-screen editing mainly differs from hard-copy editing in the fact that the copy editor should edit more cleanly on screen, refraining from saving parts of words, and be careful in maintaining proper [[leading|line spacing]].<ref name="einsohn2011" />{{rp|7–10}}