Microsoft Editor
Write more clearly and concisely with Microsoft Editor—wherever you work
Overview
Write with style and confidence
- Catch misspelling and check for grammar, capitalization, and punctuation errors.
- Check for clarity, conciseness, and formality with advanced features. In-app learning tips provide background and suggestions on things such as vocabulary and punctuation.3
- Check your spelling and grammar and polish your writing style across social media, email, and documents. Use Editor in Word and Outlook.
- Communicate in more than 20 languages, including English, Spanish, German, and French, with intelligent grammar, editing, and spelling suggestions. Select up to three languages to spell check at the same time.
- Craft your own dictionary so Editor won’t mark certain words as misspelled.
- Check your document for content that’s like text online and cite the original source.
- Identify phrases that would benefit from simpler wording, switch to active voice instead of passive voice, and avoid jargon.
- Highlight issues like sentence fragments, missing words and punctuation, capitalization, and commonly confused words with the online grammar checker.
Key features
Edit, grammar, and spelling resources
Check your grammar
Improve your writing, catch mistakes, and use best practices to write like a pro with the free Microsoft Editor grammar checker.
Use Editor in Word and Outlook for the web
Improve your grammar, spelling, and writing style with AI suggestions.
Get spelling tips and tricks
Learn how to improve your writing with an online spell checker and get tips, resources, and spelling best practices.
Improve your writing
Unlock your creativity and become the best writer you can be with our resources.
Plans and pricing
Editor is better with Microsoft 365
Frequently asked questions
- Currently, Editor is available on desktop devices including macOS and Windows.
- Editor is currently supported in a variety of user-friendly locations including Outlook, Word for the web, and the Word desktop app.
- If you subscribe to Microsoft 365, you receive premium features for Microsoft Editor wherever you use it, including Microsoft Word.
- Editor supports basic guidance in more than 20 languages and spelling suggestions in more than 80. View the full list here.
- No, but you can subscribe to Microsoft 365 to get the premium version of Editor in combination with many other apps such as premium versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Get started
- [1]Once your paid subscription begins, you have a 7-day cancellation window to receive a prorated refund, only paying for what you use. You may cancel your subscription at any time in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Learn how to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365.
- [2]After your one-month free trial ends, your subscription will automatically convert to a paid subscription and you’ll be charged the applicable subscription fee based on the subscription term and billing plan you select. Cancel anytime during your free trial to stop future charges. A credit card is required to sign up. Storage for trials will be limited. Microsoft reserves the right to suspend access to its products and services if payment is not received after your one-month free trial ends. Learn more.
- [3]Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription required
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