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Write with confidence across documents, email, and the web. With features that help strengthen your spelling, grammar, and style, Microsoft Editor is your intelligent writing assistant.
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Create your own dictionary so Editor won’t mark certain words as misspelled.
Check your document for content that’s similar to 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.
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Editor basic, spelling and grammar
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Editor basic, spelling and grammar
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Conciseness
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Vocabulary
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Punctuation conventions
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Copilot Pro available as an add-on.*
Microsoft Editor for free
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Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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Frequently asked questions
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Currently, Editor is available on desktop devices including macOS and Windows. It is not available on mobile.
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Editor is currently supported in a variety of user-friendly locations including Google docs, Gmail, Outlook, Word for the web, the Word desktop app, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Outlook, among other places.
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The free browser extension can be downloaded here for Edge and here for Chrome. It's free to use for spelling and grammar checking but you can get premium features by subscribing to Microsoft 365.
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If you subscribe to Microsoft 365, you receive premium features for Microsoft Editor wherever you use it, including the downloadable browser extension and Microsoft Word, among other places.
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Editor supports basic guidance in more than 20 languages and spelling suggestions in more than 80. View the full list here.
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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.
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