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Hi Ed,

One of my recent articles for a private request was accepted. The customer however requests a slight edit in the first part of the content. His mail goes so:

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Hello Lenin,

one comment about article "E-paper technology: Tomottow's Paper". I think there is too long citation in the beginning (63 words of total 820, i.e. 7.5% of the text). Can you please re-phrase it or reduce it somehow, so that the citation would be not more than 3.5% of the full text? I think so because when one starts to read the article the first several lines are very important to get one's attention and make him read it to the end. Another reason is when I post it in my blog there will be just 80 words of the article visible on the front page and it should not be fully a citation.

Regards,
Marco

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Can anything be done about it? Is it possible to make the content editable by any means? Please suggest an opinion. Thanks

Lenin

Lenin,

You have to delete your article and resubmit with the customer's changes in the new document. You can't edit the original document once it has already been approved by the editor.

Make a note in the short summary for Ed though - saying that the previously approved article has minor changes as per customer's request. This could help Ed to hasten the process for your customer.

Hayley

Thanks guys, for the suggestions. Ed, may I do as this? delete and resubmit with these minor changes? I will put a note in the short summary. I need your opinion first.

Yes, this is the typical procedure for editing accepted files. Thanks.

Thanks Ed, I will resubmit it right away