1. A few tricks to take you beyond the basics of Microsoft Office 2010
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A few tricks to take you beyond the basics of Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft Word 2010:
Checking Your Writing Style

2. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
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3. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
For years, computer programs have provided abilities for composing and editing text. Many users are grateful for features that check spelling and catch grammatical errors.

4. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
Clitches that sound fine in speech are sometimes inappropriate in written form
More recent and powerful software versions can help us with our writing style as well.

5. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
Clichés that sound fine in speech are sometimes inappropriate in written form.

6. When we type contractions, its nice to have a little computer help
Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
When we type contractions, its nice to have a little computer help
When we type contractions, it’s nice to have a little computer help We need to know when we are over-using things like sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and passive tense.

7. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
Word’s Grammar feature proofreads your writing as you type. In addition you can adjust the settings according to your writing needs.

8. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
To turn on the Grammar feature, begin by clicking the File tab at the top left of the screen.
Then click on Options at the bottom of the dialog box.

9. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
The Word Options dialog box will appear with an options list on the left of the screen.
Click on the option that says Proofing.

10. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
About half way down the Word Options dialog box, check the box next to the words Mark grammar errors as you type.

11. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
To make more specific choices on grammar errors you want to detect, click the Settings button.

12. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
A Grammar Settings dialog box will open and you can scroll down the list, putting check marks in the boxes next to features and styles you want detected as you write.
For more details on how the grammar settings work, go to this Microsoft page:   Select grammar and writing style options.

13. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
Exit the Grammar Settings dialog box by clicking the OK button.

14. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
And exit the Word Options dialog box by clicking OK button once again.

15. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
After that, whenever you type any poor wording, Word 2010 will underline it with a green wavy line.

16. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
Put your cursor on the green wavy line and click the right button on your mouse.
Word will provide a suggestion that you can either accept or ignore.

17. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
These Word proofing tools can be a big help but they are not perfect.
Always proofread the document when you are finished.

18. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
And if the document is really important have someone proofread it who was not involved in writing it. There’s nothing like a fresh pair of eyes to catch mistakes!

19. Microsoft Word 2010: Checking Your Writing Style
That is all there is to it! Below are the step-by-step directions for checking your writing in Word 2010 Have fun checking!
Step-by-Step:
- Click the Microsoft Office Icon
- Click Word Options
- Click Proofing
- Put a check mark next to Mark grammar errors as you type
- Click Settings
- Put check marks next to the functions you want Word to check
- Click OK
- When a green wavy line appears, right-click on it for a
suggested change