Style Guide is a Jasper feature for Business Customers that enables a company to define their grammar, punctuation and terms rules. This ensures writing is consistent company wide.
This is limited to business plans only.
Settings
There are Admin level controls around Style Guide rules. When enabled in Permission Settings, only Admins and Managers are allowed to set up and modify these rules.
Grammar and Punctuation
The following grammar and punctuation specifics can be toggled on or off based on preference.
Style Presets
- AP
- Custom
Writing Style
- Prefer active voice
- Use contractions where possible
Titles and Headings
- Use title case in headings and titles
Regional Customization
- English (US)
- English (UK)
- English (CA)
- English (AU)
Puntuation Options
- Remove Semicolons
- Replace exclamation points with periods
- Use an em-dash (-) to offsite an aside
- Use spaces before and after the em-dash
- Use an en-dash to connect a range of numbers or dates
- Use/remove Oxford (serial) commas before the last items in a series
- Use 1 or 2 spaces after a period
Ampersand Usage
- Don't use an ampersand (&) unless it's used in a brand name
- Don't use '+' to mean 'and'
Dates and Numbers
- Always spell out numbers
- 0 - 9
- 0 - 10
- 0 - 99
- Use commas to separate numbers with four or more digits
Rules
A Rule allows you to apply certain instructions to a specific root term. Available rules are:
- Abbreviate after first use
- Always abbreviate
- Avoid in outputs
- Replace with new word or term
- Use exact case
- Use lowercase
- Use uppercase
How to Apply
When you are in the document editor, click "Validate Brand Guidelines" in the upper right hand corner. From here you will be able to access and apply your Style Guide and/or Visual Guidelines. Make sure you're on the Style Guide tab.
You will either see a list of proposed edits or you will get a green check mark showing that your document is in-line with your Style Guide. If you have edits, you can go through and click on them individually to correct them or you can click the purple "Apply Style Guide" button and make all corrections at once.
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