Microsoft Editor gives you fine‑tuned control over how Word reviews your writing. Beyond basic spelling and grammar, Editor can check for clarity, conciseness, vocabulary, formality, and many other writing‑style refinements. To tailor these checks to your needs, Word lets you choose exactly which issues Editor highlights and which ones it ignores.
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From the Home tab, choose Editor.
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Scroll through the list of options. Select issues you want Editor to check, and clear the issues you want Editor to ignore.
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Choose OK to save changes and close the dialog box or Cancel to exit without saving.
Choosing Reset All returns to the default settings.
Tip: In a document that includes more than one language, the list of options matches the language at the location of the insertion point when the Grammar Settings dialog box was opened. For information about the issues that Editor checks in various languages, see Editor's spelling, grammar, and refinement availability by language.
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