Proofreader Needed...Desperately

Allow me to lay a few things out for you before writing the rest of this post:

• I have self diagnosed OCD. Some things should just really be a certain way.
• I am a perfectionist. See previous statement.
• I had a junior high English teacher, Mrs. M., who gave us extra credit for finding typos in print. See previous two statements.
• I do practically nothing at work except watch training PowerPoint presentations.

Do you see where this is going?

Thanks to Mrs. M., I constantly look for typos. If it's somewhere I can fix it, such as a handout or a textbook, I have to fix it. When it's somewhere I can't fix it, say, on a PowerPoint slide that I'm not controlling, I can't concentrate on what's going on.

Here are some examples from my week:

• Make sure to agree the recommendation with Mr. Smith.
• Attend progress meetings at supliers work.
• Monitor and progress the completion.
• Tthe transition.
• Processes are focussed.
• Felxibility.
• Is a:- I believe one of those forms of punctuation is perfectly adequate.
  
• Programme I only add this because I had a professor who said "We live in the United States of America. Unless you're the Queen, don't use the Queen's English."*
• Major purchases or automobile, truck, computer, or domestic appliance. Isn't a truck an automobile?
• Missing commas that made oh so many run-on sentences.
• Alternating periods at the ends of lines, which drove my OCD mind bonkers.

This one was from my dictionary.com Word of the Day (shut up), mot juste:

• a word or phrase that exacts fits the case.

I mean, really people. Proofreading isn't that hard. Spell/grammar check on Microsoft Word may not catch everything, but it certainly would have caught some of these.

*Generally, I agree with my professor. However, in my opinion, theatre is always spelled "theatre," not theater. Don't ask me why. It just is.