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Microsoft Editor runs in Word for Microsoft 365 to analyze your document and offer suggestions for spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues, like making sentences more concise, choosing simpler words, or writing with more formality. To use Editor, on the Home tab choose Editor.
Spell check documents manually or automatically as you type, or turn spell check off. Run grammar and spell checker manually to proof your writing.
If you need to add text that's in a language other than the one you normally use, Office can help check spelling and grammar for you. Receive basic guidance in more than 20 languages, and spelling suggestions in more than 80, using Editor with Microsoft 365.
You can manage the language or languages that check your spelling and grammar. You can add more languages and change the default proofing language, by completing these procedures: When you complete these actions, the proofing tools automatically detect your language. You don't need to complete these procedures in order, but we recommend it.
Use Word with your keyboard and a screen reader to review and fix spelling, grammar, and writing style errors in a document. We have tested it with Narrator, JAWS, and NVDA, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques.
When Word finishes checking the spelling and grammar and errors corrected, you can choose to display information about the reading level of the document, including readability scores according to the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level test and Flesch Reading Ease test.
When checking spelling and grammar automatically, right-click the word with the red squiggly line and select Add to Dictionary. When running the spelling and grammar checking tool, select Add or Add to Dictionary for the flagged word.
If you need to add text that's in a language other than the one you normally use, Office can help check spelling and grammar for you. Receive basic guidance in more than 20 languages, and spelling suggestions in more than 80, using Editor with Microsoft 365. On the Review tab select Language > Language Preferences.
Go to the Review and select the arrow next to Spelling & Grammar. Select AutoCorrect Options... and then select or clear Replace text as you type Word for the web currently has a slightly more limited set of AutoCorrect Options than Word on the desktop does.
There are three areas in Microsoft Office where you may want to change the language. Editing or Authoring is the language in which you write and edit your content. You may need to install an associated keyboard for this language via Windows settings. Proofing tools are spelling and grammar check.
Sometimes checking for spelling and grammar errors doesn't work the way you'd expect. To find a solution for the problem you're experiencing, visit our community of Word users who can help you. For more info on spelling and grammar checking, see Spelling and grammar in Word.