Surely this sentence deserved a squiggle or two?Īnd there are instances where the grammar check is wrong. Just skimming through a document looking for blue squiggles won’t catch everything. The English grammar check in Word isn’t perfect by any means. Like the Spelling pane, there’s a change language option. Grammar – opens the Grammar pane to show more options and examples. Ignore Once – removes the blue squiggly line with no change. Or missing the comma after ‘For example’. For example, adding extra spaces between words. The blue squiggly line checks not just for grammar but also common typing mistakes. For example, switch between US English and ‘real’ English from the Mother Country. In this case the page includes a great line from Steven Wright, “ What’s another word for Thesaurus?”Īt the bottom of the pane you can switch languages or variants. The speaker icon next to the word will play a voice speaking the word.Ĭlick on ‘See More…’ to open a web page about that word. There’s a longer list of synonyms and you can type other words into the search box at the top. If your computer is connected to the Internet you’ll see extra options.
Or choose ‘Thesaurus…’ to see more in a side-pane. Here we’re looking for synonyms of ‘thesaurus’:Ĭlick on a synonym to replace the current word. Right-click on a correctly spelled word and choose Synonyms. Microsoft Word has a thesaurus in some languages. In a paper thesaurus (like the famous Roget’s Thesaurus that I pored over as a kid and still available) you looked up a word to see alternatives or synonyms type IRSf to get Internal Revenue Service )Īt the bottom of these options is ‘Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker’ which ties the spell check to Autocorrect. You can add your own common mistakes to this list or use AutoCorrect to save typing by changing a shortcut term into a longer one. When you type something from the ‘Replace’ column, Word will insert the ‘With’ value instead. Things like tpye accomodation youve and many more are loaded into an AutoCorrect list at Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect. It’s different from the speller checker but related. AutoCorrectĪutoCorrect is Word magically changing common spelling mistakes as you type. Opens a Bing search for that word in a side-pane. It won’t be marked as wrong in any other documents. There’s no option to ignore just one instance of a misspelled word.Īdd to Dictionary – adds this word to your custom dictionary. Ignore All – Word will consider that word as correctly spelled in this document. Right-click to see possible correct spellings. We all know about the red squiggly line on misspelled words. You may think you know all about the language tools, but Word always has a few extras tucked away to surprise even experts. There’s help to choose alternative words, alternate languages, check and improve grammar, hyphenate documents and even test the document for readability.
Microsoft Word’s language tools are more than just red or blue squiggly lines.