Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 21. Fine-Tuning Your Work

In this section

• Proofreading in Another Language

• Controlling What’s Checked

• Improving the Layout with Hyphenation

• Reviewing Your Grammar in Word

• Fine-Tuning the Text Flow

• Getting the Results You Want

• Finding Alternative Wording

We all know that glaring errors in a file—spelling mistakes, poor grammar, and so on—can seriously compromise the credibility of our work. How many of us have never smacked ourselves in the head and howled, "How did I miss that?" after seeing an especially egregious mistake in an important file? Fortunately, the programs in the Microsoft Office System provide a variety of tools that help you make your work inviting to look at, easy to read, and error free. When you use the proofing tools, you can ...