MS Word EditorWhen you open a Word document, at botton left of the window you'll see the basic stats related to the file and an icon which, if you hover the mouse pointer over it, might say 'Checking for proofing errors'. Once it has finished its checking, the message will normally change to 'Word found proofing errors. Click or tap to correct them'. Clicking on the icon opens the Editor pane. The first section of that pane gives its 'Editor Score', and there is a section that you can click to take you through each of its suggestions, but the suggestions are also categorized further down, so we'll look at them there. The next section gives its view of the writing style, either Formal, Professional, or Casual. Then we find the various categories of suggestions that Editor has, and you can click on each cateogory to see its suggestions. One of the cateogories is 'Resume', which would apply if you are preparing your resume, but otherwise can be ignored. In the screenshot below I have clicked on the 'Clarity' category and it has brought up its first suggestion. It may bring up a suggestion that you can accept or reject, but here it has made no suggested change, just noted what it considered to be the issue. Of course, you can also find these points by looking at the words or phrases that get underlined in the document in blue or red. In this case, it is making a suggesting to identify something that can currently be only speculated about, so I ignored it. In another cateogory it was suggesting that I spell Turkey in a way that my potential readers would not recognize, so that seemed like a good one to ignore too, but the suggestions often are helpful. Clicking on 'Document stats' under 'Insights' brings up the Readability Statistics including the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (you can Google that), and in this case it suggests that it is suitable for 10th to 12th grade level, or in other words was fairly difficult to read. Probably true! |
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