ive heard that word has a grading system for documents you create that will
let you know how well you have written your paper, does anyone know how to
access this feature ? thanks
It isn't that ambitious; I don't think any program can tell you "how well"
you've written a paper. Word can apply two mathematical formulas called the
Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score. These depend
strictly on measures like sentence length and number of syllables per word to
try to estimate how easy-to-read the text may be. You could write complete
gibberish and these scores would still give you a (meaningless) estimate.
If you want to see these scores for your document, go to Tools > Options >
Spelling & Grammar (in Word 2003 and earlier) or Office button > Word Options >
Proofing (in Word 2007) and check the box for "Show readability statistics".
Back in the document, press F7 to run a spelling check; when it finishes, it
will show a dialog that includes the two scales along with other statistics
about the document.
If you want to know more about how the scores are calculated and what they mean,
read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test.
