^Draft essay in Word. Edit over same version in Word so that you do not have have multiple drafts on your computer. I had my kids print the “final” version on paper and do a final check there. Sometimes when you change the medium, you will catch errors and typos that you missed when viewing the text on screen. Make any final changes. Copy over essay to computer clipboard and then “paste” what you copied onto the Common App space. Looking Forward is absolutely right in advising to then reproof what was pasted over in case something was lost in the copying (e.g. cursor missed the last words or lines).