I am the Picky Proofreader (our motto - we aim to please other pedants) & pick up stray spaces & other typos. When I joined the Public Service after school in 1970 we had to sit a Clerical Selection Test & proofreading was part of it & I've done a lot of proofreading over the decades.

I'm putting off creating minutes as the minute taker always leaves spaces & LibreOffice shows them as blue squiggles (so they don't really count as proofreading) however my email doesn't so those spaces have to be found. Why the minute taker has to hit the spacebar several times when he also uses Return to get to a new paragraph is beyond me & as to why he sometimes puts a space before a full stop (period) is also beyond me ... (grumble, grumble)

Latest email from a friend who contributes articles to several newsletters only had 2 stray spaces & one missing capital! She got a gold star.

A few years back I was second proofreader on a book & found a few things the first proofreader missed. I hope no-one follows me & sees glaring mistakes!

sandra