These are some basic tips that will help you make professional, accurate, and creative documents in Microsoft Word. You can easily right-click on what it thinks is an error and add it to the dictionary or select to ignore all instances of it in the document. There will be many times where you’re using tech lingo or need to explain something in a certain way and Word thinks it’s wrong.
Just like in 2010 you can type different terms into the search box and select different reference sources such as the Encarta Dictionary or Bing.īonus Tip: If you don’t want to use the mouse to navigate around Word to access the Research Pane, hold down the Alt key while clicking on the word or phrase in the document, and the Research Pane will open up.Įven with Word 2010 it’s still not a perfect tool. The Research Pane opens and you can look for synonyms for the word you want. Here you can ado a Spelling & Grammar check as well when doing a final proof of your document. Right-click a word you want to research and go to Synonyms then Thesaurus.Īlternately you can click the Review tab on the Ribbon and in the Proofing section click on Thesaurus. This will scan your document and show you what might be wrong and offers suggestions to change it.Īccessing the Thesaurus in Word 2007 is essentially the same in 2007. If you’re writing a long document you may have missed certain grammar and spelling errors. A final step before sending out a document is to click the Review tab then Spelling & Grammar. Word will usually let you know if something is misspelled or if grammar is incorrect while you’re typing. This comes in handy if you need to do a quick web search on the topic your writing about. If you click one of the links, a separate browser session will open up to the page. Again the Research Pane opens up and you can look through the results. In this example we highlighted “Quick Style gallery” in the document and looked it up with Bing. Here we used the Encarta Dictionary and the Research Pane opens up so you can view definitions. Then scroll down to Look Up and you will get a list of various resources for finding its definition.
To use the Dictionary in Word, right-click on a word you want to look up.
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