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Edit vs Autoformat - What's the difference?

edit | autoformat |

As verbs the difference between edit and autoformat

is that edit is to change a text, or a document while autoformat is to cause the layout of a document to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.

As a noun edit

is a change to the text of a document.

edit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A change to the text of a document.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change a text, or a document.
    • I want to edit this sentence.
    Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
  • To be the editor of a publication.
    • He edits the Bee.

    Related terms

    * editable * edition * editor * editorial

    Synonyms

    * retouch, fix up, alter

    Anagrams

    * diet * tide * tied ----

    autoformat

    English

    Verb

    (autoformatt)
  • To cause the layout of a document to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
  • (computing) To automatically prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process, without requiring a prompt from the user to do so.