I’ve used various versions of Microsoft Word over the years and even taught a few classes at Microsoft’s office locally. People in general do not use the full capacity of the word, because they simply do not know that it exists. The goal within this article is to help you turn your word version into a powerful tool. This tool will help you write your email articles faster and easier.
If you’re like 80 percent of adults in this great nation, myself included, you haven’t paid enough attention in your high school grammar classes. Most of us cannot write a sentence without at least one grammatical error. I must admit that I was totally lost for words when it came to splitting infinitives and I didn’t know what the participle was. Most of my problems are that I usually use a passive voice when writing.
If you put an example word to show all these grammatical errors, you will have much less to guess if you have errors or not. You can also invoke the help feature at the touch of a button, which will explain errors to you if needed. Trust me, it’s easy and I use that feature often.
Go ahead and open a copy of Microsoft word and look at the top tool and you will see the word tools. Below the list of tools drop down and you need to select the options from there. When you click on options, a box will appear on your screen with various tabs.
We read the spelling and grammar tab. The top part will contain spelling options and it’s easier for you to tell what not to stop. Most of these options will be disabled so go ahead and hide everything but hidden spelling errors and suggest from the main dictionary. You want to show spelling errors, and sometimes you have words like slings that are not in the main directory.
Under the grammar section, you’ll want to check everything but the one that says hide grammatical errors. You have to see them to fix them. There should also be a drop box there, do the work of the option that says grammar, and the style shows in that box.
Underneath that box, click on that and you’ll see the settings. There are a few things they require. For the comma after the last list item option, select Always. For the option of punctuation before or after the quotation, you must choose outside. For the option about spaces at the end of a sentence, choose the number 2. For the rest of the boxes on that tab, check everything, but use the first person. Click OK to exit those options and return to Word.
Now just go ahead and type your article as you normally would. All spelling mistakes will now have a wavy red line under them reminding you of what you’ve typed. You may see a wavy green line under some words or punctuation, and this tells you that you have made a grammatical error that needs fixing.
When you see a red or green line under a word or punctuation right click on it and a drop down list will appear and show the error or correct spelling. If there is a spelling error, just select the correct spelling and highlight and change it within your article.
You can correct your mistakes as you write the article or you can correct them when you finish writing. I proofread as I do, but when I’m done, I also use the spelling and grammar checker under tools in that tool. forensic
This feature allows me to call for help if I feel I need it.
I have noticed that many of my articles offer better results if I use these settings in Word. Also look smarter and that is always good. Another benefit is that I really learn the rules of grammar, which I learned many years ago, but I don’t want to pay attention. I think Mrs. Ronsvalle will be happy to know that I will learn them at last.
