This feature will help those that express themselves better through speech. You can dictate words, punctuation marks, new lines, and new paragraphs. Once a red dot appears on the page, it means that the Dictate feature is active. Its similar to the Windows Speech Recognition (or Speech Services) feature except that the activity is under Word’s control. There is also an option for you to dictate the words you want to appear on the paper. There is also a catalog of different voices that have a variety of accents. You can instruct it to fast forward, go back, pause, read louder, faster, etc. It appears as a small toolbar on the upper right corner of the text area. As the name suggests, the tool reads the text on the page for you. Read Aloud is an updated version of a previous Office Command - Speak.

It’s a set of five tools, namely Column Width, Page Color, Text Spacing, Syllables, and Read Aloud. Learning Tools is Word’s collection of tools that will help with reading comprehension. The features are not exclusive to writers, but for those that draw illustrations and write equations as well. Editing toolsĪs an Office and News software provider, Microsoft wants to provide its users with tools to help them improve their ability to share and absorb information. You will see their name and what changes they’ve made. It also allows you to collaborate with other users in real-time. The client communication program offers more features to help you write your documents such as improved digital pen features, book-like page navigation, Learning tools, and translation. Word for Windows is part of the Microsoft 365 suite (formerly known as Office 365) but it can be downloaded independently. Word 2019 is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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