Introduction
Creating a professional document in Microsoft Word (MS Word), which meets all academic standards, can be greatly simplified due to the appropriate options and tools that this popular program includes. MS Word has a change tracking feature that allows for editing the desired document and monitoring the progress of work.
Discussion
As Schcolnik (2018) notes, the same option is available in Google Docs, but in MS Word, it is easier to use. Another highly useful function is copy-paste, which helps authors not manually type the text required from another document but move the already prepared volume of words and symbols that can be edited and saved. Finally, another important feature that is necessary for professional work with MS Word is an opportunity to correctly insert links and hyperlinks. For academic practice, this option is indispensable because this is crucial to utilize a regulated reference format for copyright compliance and proper citation.
To make an MS Word document error-free, the user can apply valuable spell-checking options. One of them is a grammar checker that He (2021) calls an auxiliary function, which greatly simplifies working with text files, especially if a person doubts one’s literacy. Another tool that is necessary for professional work in MS Word is Thesaurus, which allows for making a document lexically aligned and, at the same time, pleasant to read.
Conclusion
However, when correcting errors, the autocorrect tool is the most valuable option MS Word contains. Due to it, the user can notice errors in spelling and punctuation and correct them timely, which greatly simplifies any writing practice. Moreover, if necessary, the program’s recommendations can be customized, which further increases the importance of this function.
References
He, Z. (2021). English grammar error detection using recurrent neural networks. Scientific Programming, 2021, 1-8.
Schcolnik, M. (2018). Digital tools in academic writing? Journal of Academic Writing, 8(1), 121-130.