- [Instructor] Have you ever been typing away
in your Word document and you need to find a word
that's on tip of your tongue,
and you just can't come up with it.
Or perhaps you're using the same word over and over
in your document, and you need to find some synonyms.
Well, there's another proofing tool in 2019
called the thesaurus that's going to help you with that.
Let's explore it now
with our Tech Connect document 0803, if you're catching up.
Scroll down to the bottom of page one.
Check out the first sentence about the Give-a-Thon
in Denver, Colorado likening it
to the hubbub of activity to a typical frenzied day
on Wall Street.
How about the word hubbub?
Maybe there's a better word, a more professional word.
We'll click anywhere in the word
to look up synonyms for hubbub.
We simply make sure the review tab is selected
on the ribbon, and click the source.
That opens up the pane over here on the right hand side.
The word's already showing up at the top,
and it's also highlighted here in our document.
That means we can find a synonym down below
that we might think would work better
by simply selecting it, like the word din.
Go ahead and click it.
That opens up the word din to show synonyms for that word
including hubbub.
Well, I'm thinking maybe if we just go back
and use the word din,
as opposed to looking up other words.
Click the drop down arrow and insert it.
Notice it replaces the word hubbub with the word din.
Let's try that one more time.
Down in the next paragraph,
just three short years ago we quietly.
Click in the word quietly.
Now when we do that,
we're still looking at hubbub over here.
So if you wanted to, you could could the source again,
and it replaces it with the word quietly.
Again, we can go to any of these synonyms.
You can see some
are different types of adverbs,
and if you find word that you like,
I think softly.
We can click the drop down and go directly
to inserting it, like so.
When you're done with the thesaurus,
click the x in the top right corner to close up the pane
and continue working on your document.
So, if you're looking for a certain word,
you can't come up with you
but you know the general idea,
type in a similar word, use thesaurus to find that word.
Or again, if you're using the same word over and over
throughout a document,
that can become a little monotonous,
you might want to look up other words that mean
the same thing to create some variety
in your documents using thesaurus.