
WordRake adds four options to Word’s context-sensitive (right-click) menu.
click the Rake icon in the WordRake ribbon. select all the text (the leftmost button in the WordRake ribbon). To “rake” needless words out of a document, you: The article was in praise of the Palm Pre, a potential challenger to other smartphones (that was ineptly handled and shut down… but I won’t grumble about that here). I’ll show you why I like WordRake using an article I wrote years ago, well before I learned of WordRake or StyleWriter. (The other one was StyleWriter from Editor Software.) I could accomplish similar ends using features built into Word and a little elbow grease, but I keep returning to WordRake, one of the two Word plugins I checked out for the aforementioned article.
(Editors at the magazine I wrote this for came up with a witty title for the resulting article.) Earlier this year, I reviewed software that plugs into Microsoft Word (for Windows only, not available for Mac) to help writers sharpen their prose.