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| Microsoft Editor: Spelling & Grammar Checker | |
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| File:Microsoft Editor Icon 2025 En.svg | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Initial release | July 2016 |
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| Written in | JavaScript, C# |
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| Included with | Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge |
| Size | 1.92MiB Chrome Web Store |
| Available in | 100+ languages including Arabic - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Finnish - French - German - Hebrew (not yet available in the desktop Word app) - Hungarian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Norwegian (Bokmål) - Polish - Portuguese (Brazil) - Portuguese (Portugal) - Russian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish |
| Website | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-editor |
Microsoft Editor is a closed source AI-powered writing assistant available for Word, Outlook, and as a Chromium browser extension part of Microsoft 365. It includes the essentials in a writing assistant, such as a grammar and spell checker. Microsoft provides a basic version of Editor for free but users wanting more features will need to have a paid Microsoft account.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
| Version | Price |
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| Microsoft 365 Personal | $9.99 monthly |
| Microsoft 365 Family | $12.99 monthly |
As of October 2024, Microsoft Editor whilst being a Microsoft product, is not available in all of Microsoft tools (even popular business applications such as their messaging client, Microsoft Teams). [7]
Tools and features
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- Corrections:
- Spelling
- Basic Grammar: Flags capitalization, subject verb agreement, hyphen use, and other basic grammar errors
- Advanced Grammar (paid version) Flag indirect questions, misheard phrases, commonly confused phrases, and other more complex grammar issues
- Refinements (paid version):
- Clarity: Flags incorrect use of words, uncommon jargon, abstract words, passive voice, and double negatives.
- Conciseness: Flags wordiness, conjunction overuse
- Formality: Flags slang, informal phrases, colloquialisms, contractions, and other markers of casual, more conversational language.
- Inclusiveness: Flags slurs and deprecated descriptors of people
- Perspectives
- Punctuation conventions: Flags unnecessary commas, punctuation with quotes, sentence spacing, and other issues related to punctuation.
- Sensitive geopolitical references: promotes using official or neutral names and phrases, and tries to help when names of places have changed over time.
- Vocabulary: Flags vague adjectives, weak verbs, clichés, and other issues related to word choice. Recommends idiomatic collective nouns, such as beds of oysters over collections of oysters.[8] Recommends using terms specific to the reader's country or region, such as parkade over parking garage for Canadian readers.[8] Editor recommends avoiding words that are specific to a US region; for example, it will suggest replacing bubbler with water fountain.[8]
Geopolitical references
[edit | edit source]As described by Microsoft's Detailed descriptions of grammar and refinement guidance of June 2020, the guidance on sensitive geopolitical references promotes[8]
- using official place names, such as Canada over Republic of Canada,
- using the most politically neutral place name, such as Sea of Japan (East Sea) over East Sea,
- avoiding geopolitical terms that may imply bias, so it suggests using East Asia instead of Orient,
- avoiding the word 'dialect' for some languages,
- using current geopolitical terms such as Czech instead of Czechoslovak,
- using current place names, such as St. Petersburg over Leningrad,
- avoiding technological terms that evoke geopolitical or humanitarian issues, so it suggests using secondary database over slave database,
- using modern transliterations, such as Chongqing over Chungking,
- double-checking names of defunct geopolitical entities in modern contexts, such as asking if Eastern Germany is beautiful in summer might be more appropriate than The GDR is beautiful in summer,
- using official names of languages, such as Persian over Farsi, or European Spanish or Spanish over standard Spanish,
- and double-checking place names whose meaning has changed over time, such as Astana versus Tselinograd.
Platform support
[edit | edit source]- Windows supported / Linux unsupported [9]
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome[1]
- Brave[6]
See also
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References
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