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Microsoft Editor runs in Word for Microsoft 365 to analyze your document and offer suggestions for spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues, like making sentences more concise, choosing simpler words, or writing with more formality. To use Editor, on the Home tab choose Editor.
You can manage the language or languages that check your spelling and grammar. You can add more languages and change the default proofing language, by completing these procedures: When you complete these actions, the proofing tools automatically detect your language. You don't need to complete these procedures in order, but we recommend it.
Check spelling and grammar automatically as you type. By default, Outlook checks for spelling errors as you type. Outlook uses a dashed red underline to indicate possible spelling errors and a dashed green line to indicate possible grammatical errors.
If you need to add text that's in a language other than the one you normally use, Office can help check spelling and grammar for you. Receive basic guidance in more than 20 languages, and spelling suggestions in more than 80, using Editor with Microsoft 365.
Add words like proper names or technical terms to your spell check dictionary or create and edit a new custom dictionary.
You may need to install an associated keyboard for this language via Windows settings. Proofing tools are spelling and grammar check. Typically, you'll set this language to be the same as the editing or authoring language. Display language is for all the buttons, menus, and controls in Office.
On the Word menu, select Preferences, and then AutoCorrect. Select or clear Replace text as you type . Go to the Review and select the arrow next to Spelling & Grammar .
You can also specify whether the spelling checker flags repeated words. You can find these settings in the Proofing dialog box of most Office programs. See Open the proofing options in your Office program below to learn how to access the proofing options in each Office program.
Use Word with your keyboard and a screen reader to review and fix spelling, grammar, and writing style errors in a document. We have tested it with Narrator, JAWS, and NVDA, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques.
Add words like proper names or technical terms to your spell check dictionary or create and edit a new custom dictionary.
Languages marked with an asterisk (*) include context-sensitive spell checking. Learn which languages are supported by Editor's spelling, grammar, and refinement features. View spelling, grammar, and writing styles in Editor.