Check grammar, spelling, and more in Word - Microsoft Support
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.
Set up or change the languages used to check spelling and grammar …
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 in a different language
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.
Editor's spelling, grammar, and refinement availability by language
This article lists the availability of the spelling, grammar, and writing style options (refinements) in Microsoft Editor. Learn how to get more from Editor with Microsoft 365.
Check spelling and grammar in Office - Microsoft Support
Clear the Mark grammar errors as you type and Check grammar with spelling check boxes.
Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary - Microsoft Support
When checking spelling and grammar automatically, right-click the word with the red squiggly line and select Add to Dictionary. When running the spelling and grammar checking tool, select Add or Add to Dictionary for the flagged word.
Set up or change the languages used to check spelling and grammar …
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.
Change the language Office uses in its menus and proofing tools
There are three areas in Microsoft Office where you may want to change the language. Editing or Authoring is the language in which you write and edit your content. You may need to install an associated keyboard for this language via Windows settings. Proofing tools are spelling and grammar check.
Get your document's readability and level statistics - Microsoft …
When Word finishes checking the spelling and grammar and errors corrected, you can choose to display information about the reading level of the document, including readability scores according to the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level test and Flesch Reading Ease test.
Use a screen reader to check spelling and grammar in Word
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 …
Turn AutoCorrect on or off in Word - Microsoft Support
Go to the Review and select the arrow next to Spelling & Grammar. Select AutoCorrect Options... and then select or clear Replace text as you type Word for the web currently has a slightly more limited set of AutoCorrect Options than Word on the desktop does.