- [Instructor] One thing that can make
your professional document feel very unprofessional
is if it's filled with spelling errors
and grammatical errors.
That's why Word provides proofing tools
like spell checker and a grammar checker
that can go through your document
with a fine tooth comb, fixing up spelling
and grammar errors.
We're gonna take a look at this feature
as we continue working with our Tech Connect document.
Close up anything you're working on
and open up Tech Connect 0802.
This one has a little extra content
and contains some spelling and grammar errors.
As we scroll down from page one
on to the next page, actually,
you can see at the bottom of this page,
something's highlighted with a red squiggly underline.
That tells us that that's spelled incorrectly
or it's not recognized in the dictionary.
Sometimes there are words that are spelled correctly
they're simply not in the dictionary.
Proper names, for example.
As we scroll a little further down,
you'll see some more with red squiggly lines.
Spelling errors.
Anything that you see with blue lines are
typically grammar errors.
They may not all be highlighted as we scroll
through our document, but there is a spell checker
and grammar checker that can run simultaneously
to check that out.
Let's try it.
We'll go up here to the very top
of our ribbon and click Review.
Over here in the Proofing section
you can see Spelling and Grammar are grouped together.
F7 is your keyboard shortcut to get this rolling.
Give it a click.
Now because we're here, on page one near the bottom,
you can see that that word we saw
with the red squiggly line is actually highlighted now,
and we have a proofing pane
over here on the right-hand side.
And this makes it easier for us to fix things up.
First of all, you see some context.
There's the sentence.
If you want to hear it, there's a little speaker icon.
It can be read aloud.
In this case it's obvious it's just spelled incorrectly.
There are some options down below
and you can see each of these has a dropdown arrow.
Now simply clicking the word built,
we know that this is the word that it should be,
it replaces it and moves on to the next.
Notice we're looking at the word innovation.
Again, we have the context that can be read aloud.
You can see the word innovation,
including down below some synonyms.
Click the dropdown arrow.
Again, we can Read Aloud, we can spell it out,
we can Change All occurrences of this typo,
we can add it to the AutoCorrect dictionary
and go directly to those AutoCorrect options
from this dropdown.
Other options include down below,
Ignore Once, so if this happened to be a word
that's actually not a typo and a proper name,
for example, we could ignore it,
or ignore it every time using Ignore All.
Or even add it to the dictionary so it never shows up
with that red squiggly line again.
Once it's added to the dictionary,
it is part of the dictionary that contains
all of the words that could be spelled incorrectly.
Alright, this is the word innovation,
so we're just simply gonna click it.
Same thing for commitment,
telecommunication,
you can see there's two options.
Telecommunication and telecommunications.
I think the one with the S words well.
On it goes to, oh, there it is, the blue line.
So you can see the blue double lines.
In this case, we're looking at a grammar error,
and you can see the issue is clarity and conciseness.
Consider using verbs instead of nouns.
And you can see generalize is the option.
Instead of make generalizations,
just generalize and to apply reason.
So, if we wanted to, again we can select this
to replace it, or we could choose
to ignore it, leaving it just as it is.
Or stop checking for this type of issue,
clarity and conciseness, and even go to options
for what we see here under clarity
and conciseness in our grammar checker.
I think we'll try out generalize to be clearer.
Here's an example of a word that's not a typo.
This is a proper name of a company.
So we don't want to select any of these replacements.
We could choose to ignore it, but if appears
in other areas of this document, it'll stop there.
We could choose to ignore all occurrences of KinetEco,
or, I like this one, add it to the dictionary.
A lot of our documents are gonna
contain the name of this company.
Adding it to the dictionary means it'll never show up
as a typo going forward.
You can always go back into your dictionary
to remove it in the future, if you and needed to.
So let's just choose Ignore All,
but you could add it to your dictionary
if you wanted to, and we're done.
Spelling and grammar check is complete when you check OK.
You now know that your document is perfect.
Perfectly spelled, perfect grammar, correct?
Not necessarily.
You'll still want to read through and make sure
that everything that you've written here make sense.
It may be spelled correctly,
but you might be using the wrong words,
for example, so proofreading is still important.
But Word makes it a lot easier for you
thanks to some of these spell checking
and grammar checking tools.