![]() That voice will only read what’s written - and not a syllable more - and it won’t put any inflection where there’s no punctuation. But having an impersonal bit of technology read to you is often the easiest way to spot lingering errors. This is where the Speech option comes in handy. Or maybe my eyes are tired, or maybe I’m just looking for a way to read something in a different way so I pay attention from a unique angle. Sometimes, when I’m writing, I can gloss over things I’ve missed because I know what I intended to write. You can customize your dictionary (especially helpful to fiction writers who love those epic fantasy names!) and you can even tell it which version of French (traditional or new spellings) you prefer.Ī bit of work on the front end will save you a considerable amount of time while writing and self-editing. You can tell it to ignore certain words, to flag repeated words, to check spelling and grammar or to leave that part to you. Do you want your fractions to be adjusted to tiny fraction characters, or do you prefer just the numbers you’ve typed, full size?Ĭlicking on the autocorrect options will also allow you to choose, for example, whether the letter “c” with parentheses around it will change to the copyright symbol or not when you hit Enter, or it can replace text as you type “teh” instead of “the” if you’ve told it to. You can customize the autocorrect to only show options for certain things, like when you accidentally type two capital letters at the beginning of a word. Here, you can tell Word whether you want autocorrect to do its thing or leave you alone. Tracking is what I use the most, but for flow, let’s start from left to right and cover the basics. On my ribbon, in the Review tab I have Proofing, Speech, Accessibility, Language, Comments, Tracking, Changes, Compare, Protect, Ink, Resume, and OneNote. The Review tab is where you can find what we’ll be talking about here. In the ribbon across the top of a Word document, you can find everything your document may need, from font setup to the help screen. Microsoft still supports Office 2010 and anything newer, but if you’re attached to an older version, some of my examples may look different than what’s on your screen, and you may not have all the features of the newer versions. I also have MS Office 2016 on my laptop, and the two versions are virtually identical. However, there’s a whole handful of wonderful tools at your disposal - all of them accessible from that same tab - that will help you polish your writing and streamline the editing process.įor this tutorial and examples, I’m using Word in Office 365. Many writers who use MS Word have never bothered with the “Review” tab unless they’re running the spell checker. Image credit: NordWood Themes on Unsplash
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