-- Before The Professor publishes his series called 'My Language Preferences'…-- -- We need to teach you about proofing tools! – -- Did you know Office 2010 Proofing Tools include a spell checker, grammar checker, thesaurus, and translation dictionaries for several languages? -- |
Tool | Functionality |
Spelling checker | Flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly and may provide suggested replacements |
Grammar/Style checker | Verifies written text for grammatical correctness and detects stylistic problems |
Thesaurus | Lists synonyms and antonyms of words (if any are available) |
Translation Dictionaries Ntfs for mac. | Allows you to translate single words or short phrases |
AutoCorrect List | Fixes typos and misspelled words and inserts symbols and other pieces of text |
Hyphenator | Automatically breaks words at the end of lines and adds hyphens to help justify text within a line |
Contextual Speller | Flags words that are spelled correctly but are not the correct words in the given context |
The availability of the different proofing tools varies based on the localized version of Office you are running or the Language Pack(s) you have installed. You can find this information for Office 2007 here. This may be different for Office 2010. |
There are several languages of proofing tools that come with each localized version or language pack. See here for Office 2007 availability. This may be different for Office 2010. |
-- We just explained proofing tools! -- -- No, silly, they want to know how to use them. -- -- Well, we can use Microsoft Word 2010 as an example then! -- |
You can access the Spelling & Grammar tool with a keystroke as well; simply press F7. |
--Oh! I almost forgot! I have to thank Viral Shah, Tom Moore, Jimmy Fang, and Paul Suurs for their help with answering this question!-- --Uh huuuuh! I knew you didn't do it by yourself!– -- Anyhow, they all work on the Office Global Experience Platform team at Microsoft!-- |