• Have the students open their latest draft of their papers that are ready to be copy-edited. 
• Highlight a section (paragraph).  Go to “Table,” “Convert Text to Table.”  Near the bottom of the dialogue box, change the “Separate text at” part to “other” and put in a period.  Then above that part, change the number of columns to “1.”  The number of rows should be the same as then number of sentences in the section (should change automatically). 
• This step is REALLY IMPORTANT (hence the all caps). Save the document as something else (like “draft 3”)—you can’t convert table to text without it getting really messed up in format, and they need to be able to go back to the previous draft to edit it.
• At this point you could just have the students trade seats and read each sentence individually, making any suggested changes in the same box, perhaps in a different font or in a different color, or you could complicate it in other ways.  See the suggestions below:
• Students could further isolate the sentences by going to “Table,” “Sort,” “OK.”  This feature will alphabetize the sentences in that section.  It makes the students concentrate only on punctuation instead of reading for meaning.  Students are probably used to seeing random sentences on worksheets from their high school grammar lessons.  They may be able to pick up sentence fragments that way.
• Students could create a parallel column for their peers’ comments.  Have them drag the right vertical border to the middle of the page, then go to “Table,” “Insert,” “Columns to the Right.”  This will give the peers a place to 1) rewrite the sentence, 2) suggest different punctuation, 3) explain their confusion about the sentence.  You can have them again write in a different font or color.
• After they have traded, read, and made suggestions for editing, they could print out the copy or just save the copy-edited paper.
• They’ll make editing changes there or at home.

MS Office 2007 Version:

• Have the students open their latest draft of their papers that are ready to be copy-edited. 
• Highlight a section (paragraph).  Go to On the "Insert" table, click on “Table,” and scroll down to “Convert Text to Table.”  Near the bottom of the dialogue box, change the “Separate text at” part to “other” and put in a period.  Then above that part, change the number of columns to “1.”  The number of rows should be the same as then number of sentences in the section (should change automatically).   
• This step is REALLY IMPORTANT (hence the all caps). Save the document as something else (like “draft 3”)—you can’t convert table to text without it getting really messed up in format, and they need to be able to go back to the previous draft to edit it.
• At this point you could just have the students trade seats and read each sentence individually, making any suggested changes in the same box, perhaps in a different font or in a different color, or you could complicate it in other ways.  See the suggestions below:
• Students could further isolate the sentences by highlighting the table, clicking on "Layout" (not "Page Layout"), and using the “Sort,” feature in the "Data" group.   This feature will alphabetize the sentences in that section.  It makes the students concentrate only on punctuation instead of reading for meaning.  Students are probably used to seeing random sentences on worksheets from their high school grammar lessons.  They may be able to pick up sentence fragments that way.
• Students could create a parallel column for their peers’ comments.  Have them drag the right vertical border to the middle of the page, then go to highlight the table, right click on it, and scroll down to “Insert,” and“ Columns to the Right.”  This will give the peers a place to 1) rewrite the sentence, 2) suggest different punctuation, 3) explain their confusion about the sentence.  You can have them again write in a different font or color.
• After they have traded, read, and made suggestions for editing, they could print out the copy or just save the copy-edited paper.
• They’ll make editing changes there or at home.