How do I improve the grammar checker?

[afisk413]

The grammar checker in Word is horrible. There must be a way to specify the
level or type of checking I want. I want formal, business level grammar
checking.
"Please confirm that you want your returns mail." should not be an
acceptable sentence.

 

[BO]

It sounds like you may want to enable Style Checking in addition to Grammar
Checking:

Office Buttion > Word Options > Proofing > under When correcting spelling
and grammar in Word, Setting > Writing Style, Grammar and Style

Cheers

 

[Graham Mayor]

The grammar checker is inevitably a poor substitute for an education. If you
paid enough attention in school to your English grammar lessons, you
wouldn't need the grammar checker and you would be able to recognise its
limitations. If you hadn't paid sufficient attention, then it will only
serve to confuse. At best computerised grammer checking is only be a rough
guide to English usage.

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[afisk413]

I agree and thanks for the personal attack. I should have been more specific
and stated that "my subordiates need a formal, business level grammar
checker." No need to reply about hiring employees with better educations.

 

[CyberTaz]

This falls into the "You can't please all the people..." category. At one
time Word did have several "levels" of grammar rules [in fact, Mac Word
still does] but none of them did what "everyone" wanted so MS apparently
standardized on the one set. Within it you can make some adjustment -
depending on which version of Word you use:

In 2007 go into Word Options> Proofing, choose Grammar & Style, then pick
the checkboxes you want active.

In prior versions you'll find similar settings in Tools> Options> Spelling &
Grammar.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Graham Mayor]

It wasn't a personal attack but a general statement, the whole point of
which was to explain that a grammar checker capable of producing accurate
grammar does not exist. It can only ever be a guide. The checker provided by
Microsoft is as good a guide as you are likely to get and you have already
discovered its limitations.

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