Word's Writing Tools Microsoft Word includes a number of features that can help you be a better writer. Some of these features can help you find and fix errors in your documents, while other features can help you fine-tune documents for publication. This chapter covers the following writing tools of interest to most Word users: The spelling checker compares words in your document to words in dictionary files to identify unknown words. The grammar checker checks sentences against a collection of grammar rules to identify questionable sentence construction. AutoCorrect automatically corrects common errors as you type. The dictionary helps you understand the meaning of words in a document. The thesaurus enables you to find synonyms or antonyms for words in your document. Hyphenation automatically hyphenates words based on hyphenation rules. Word count counts the words in a selection or the entire document. The Change Case command changes the capitalization of words you select. AutoSummarize automatically summarizes a document's content.
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