Word 97—Ease of Use

Proofreading

Natural Language Grammar Checker

Word 97 has a new natural language grammar checker that has been developed based on advanced linguistic research. The result is that Word 97 flags mistakes accurately, gives you in-place, effective suggestions and reduces your proofing time:

• Better syntactic analysis - We have done extensive usability testing on which types of errors users want flagged and which they prefer the grammar checker to ignore. As a result, we have established defaults that flag important errors and ignore trivial errors, reducing the verification burden on the user.
• Rewrites for erroneous sentences - Word gives you full sentence rewrites in the context menu and in the dialog, making it easy to review the end result of the suggested change.
• User-friendly grammar styles - Grammar styles are now based on templates which means Word uses the appropriate grammar style for different types of documents. For example, if you are writing a formal letter, Word automatically uses the Business Letter grammar style, if you are writing a technical specification, Word uses the Technical Writing grammar style.

Word uses grammar rules appropriate for
the type of document you are writing

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