What's new with editing and proofing tools?

Word 97 provides the following key features that make it faster and easier to proofread and edit documents.

Check spelling as you type Checks for spelling errors as you type, and marks possible errors directly in your document ¾ new in Word 95.

Check grammar as you type Checks for grammar errors as you type, and marks possible errors directly in your document. Like the automatic spelling checker, the automatic grammar checker offers suggestions for corrections in-place when you right-click the marked text.

Smart spelling · Recognizes your name, your organization's name, personal names of varying ethnicity, commonly used company names from the Fortune 1000 list, all country names, names of U.S. cities with a population of 30,000 or more, and current terminology.· Recognizes your typing patterns and does not mark certain patterns as errors in your document ¾ for example, words in uppercase letters and words containing numbers are no longer marked as misspellings.· Ignores Internet and file addresses.

Natural-language grammar checker Flags mistakes accurately, gives you in-place, effective suggestions, and reduces your proofing time. It offers improved syntactic analysis, better rewrite suggestions, and more user-friendly grammar styles.

Spelling and grammar checking combination Eliminates separate dialog boxes and provides an interface that lets you proofread online exactly as you do on paper. You can now check your spelling and grammar mistakes in one pass, in one place.

Find (and replace) all word forms Finds and replaces all grammatically inflected forms of a word ¾ new in Word 95. For example, if you want to replace the word "saw" with the word "hammer" throughout a document, Word intelligently changes not only "saw" to "hammer," but also "sawing" to "hammering" and "sawed" to "hammered.". Word can also intelligently replace the right word forms ¾ in this example, Word would not replace the verb "seen" with "hammer" although it is a word form of "saw" because "seen" is unrelated to "hammer." In addition, Word 97provides alternative word forms, giving you choices for possible replacements in case the default choice is not ideal. You can select the replacement from a list rather than having to type it.