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Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies
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Office 2021 All-in-One For Dummies

by Peter Weverka
February 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
800 pages
19h 1m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 5

Taking Advantage of the Proofing Tools

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Fixing spelling and grammatical errors

Bullet Finding text — and replacing it if you want

Bullet Looking for a better word in the thesaurus

Bullet Working with and translating foreign language text

I was going to call this chapter “Foolproofing Your Work,” but that seemed kind of presumptuous because keeping every error from slipping into your work is well-nigh impossible. Still, you can do a good job of proofing your work and eliminating errors by using the tools that Word provides for that purpose. This chapter describes how to proof your work for misspellings and grammatical errors. It shows how to find text, and if you’re so inclined, find and replace text. You also discover how to translate text and proof foreign language text. The proofing tools are not foolproof, but they’re close to it.

Remember The F7 key is the key to the kingdom when it comes to proofing Word documents. Here is the magic of pressing F7 and various key combinations:

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