Drop a finished Word file and get it back with every mechanical fix as a tracked change: spacing and punctuation, APA word forms, citations checked against the reference list, repeated sentences, table notes, indents. Dissertations, journal articles, psychoeducational reports. Nothing you drop here leaves your computer.
Want the report written, not just checked? AUTOMATA turns score-report PDFs into tables, graphs, narrative, and recommendations — you review and sign.
Drop a .docx here, or
Works in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox from 2023 or later. Runs entirely in your browser — the file never leaves your computer.
How to use the marked-up file. Open it in Word → Review tab → Accept or Reject each change. Every change is by author "Proof Check"; nothing is applied until you accept it. Untick any row below to leave it out of the file.
The "look at by hand" list points at a paragraph; it does not guess the wording. The reading part (meaning, logic, which of two same-named papers a citation means) still needs a person, or an AI assistant you trust, reading the whole thing.
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Save this one file anywhere — a Mac, a Windows PC, a Chromebook, a locked-down district laptop — and double-click it. Same tool, same checks, no connection needed.
Download Proof CheckDouble spaces, stray commas and brackets, parentheses that never close, “et al” without its period, straight quotes, hyphens APA doesn’t want (nonsignificant, interrater, p value), “two minutes” instead of “2 minutes”, citations with no reference entry, two papers that shorten to the same “Smith et al., 2023”, a sentence pasted in twice, a table note missing its period.
Same engine, plus the checks that get a report sent back: another student’s name left in, the wrong pronoun, a merge field that never filled, a score in the narrative that isn’t in the table, a percentile that doesn’t match its score.
Open Report ProofProof Check applies APA 7 conventions. Where your journal, university or district says otherwise, follow them. Every change goes into the file as a tracked change, so nothing is applied until you accept it in Word.