|             |    Automatic Handling of <R> ... </R> Tags The SEC may require the inclusion of <R> ... </R> tags in your HTML or ASCII filing to indicate revisions. This is often required in amendment filings. Proper insertion of these tags by hand can be cumbersone, painstaking and error-prone, and improper R-tags invalidate the entire filing. Part of the issue is understanding how R-tags work: -
R-tags are not standard HTML tags, and are not visible when a filing is viewed in a browser. -
SEC personnel search for these tags in text mode to identify revised material. These tags are then replaced by spaces before the filing is placed in the EDGAR database and disseminated the public. -
The public always sees the content enclosed by these tags. There is no way to show deleted content only to the SEC, but you may show it as overstruck text in an HTML filing. -
You cannot include R-tags in an HTML filing by typing them literally into your Word document and EDGARizing it. The HTML produced will not contain <R> tags, but text that displays as <R> tags along with other content. Tags entered in this way will be visible to the public (which you don't want), and will not be visible to the SEC (which also you don't want). To enter R-tags by hand, you have to edit the EDGARized HTML file with a text editor (not a WYSIWYG HTML editor), taking care not to alter any other tags which may invalidate your filing.  The SEC also has rigid restrictions on how these tags may be included and paired. For example, the enclosed text may not span multiple lines, so marking a paragraph involves inserting R-tag pairs in every line of the paragraph. In a large document, this can be a very laborious process. It is no wonder that many users do not look forward to R-tagging their filings. EDGARsuite™ completely eliminates this problem by inserting these tags automatically, conforming rigidly to the SEC requirements, so there is no chance of invalidation. <R> tags can be inserted automatically by EDGARwiz™, or easily inserted interactively using EDGARstar™. You can use any of these convenient options: - Turn on "track changes" in your Word document
- If you use a third-party revisioning product such as Deltaview, that will work too
- Highlight segments you want marked with <R> tags
- Select text in EDGARstar™ and click the R button in the toolbar
EDGARsuite™ discriminates between inserted and deleted text segments, and adjusts the <R> tags and other HTML tags appropriately and automatically. Further, it gives you the option to display deleted content as overstruck, so that the deletion is obvious to the SEC as well as to the public. The automatic R-tag conversion and editing feature alone can save you hours of effort and hassle per filing. No other EDGARization product gives you as much flexibility, control and ease of generating these tags. |
