Chapter 7. Writing Tools
Word’s Writing Tools
Microsoft Word includes a number of features that can help you be a better writer. Some of these features can help you find and fix errors in your documents, while other features can help you fine-tune documents for publication.
This chapter covers the following writing tools of interest to most Word users:
The spelling checker compares words in your document to words in dictionary files to identify unknown words.
The grammar checker checks sentences against a collection of grammar rules to identify questionable sentence construction.
AutoCorrect automatically corrects common errors as you type.
The dictionary helps you understand the meaning of words in a document.
The thesaurus enables you to find synonyms ...
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