Students Speed Up Your Thesis with Microsoft Word's Secret
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Hey students, are you deep into writing your thesis or dissertation? If you're looking for ways to finish up faster and save yourself a ton of headaches, then listen up! There's a powerful tool hidden right inside Microsoft Word that can really help: its proofing features.
Believe it or not, I actually never knew about this when I was a college student working on my own papers. If only I had! I can't even imagine how much time and effort I would have saved proofreading all my reflection papers, reaction papers, and my thesis. It wasn't until I started working that I finally discovered how amazing this feature truly is.
Ready to make your writing process smoother and quicker? Let me show you how Microsoft Word can become your best friend for proofing!
1. Go To File
2. Click Options
3. Click Proofing
4. Under When Correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs tick the following (this depends on your needs if you want to tick the other options).
- tick Ignore Internet and file addresses
- Flag repeated words
5. Under When correcting spelling and grammar in Word tick the following.
You can tick the Show readability statistics if you want to know the readability and level statistics your writing/document and also make sure it's easy to read to capture your readers attention and keep their focus.
- Check spelling as you type
- Mark grammar errors as you type
- Frequently confused words
- Check grammar with spelling
*For the Writing Style "choose Grammar & Style" in the drop-down.
6. Save your settings by clicking the OK button.
