Microsoft Word gets an F in grammar

Tuesday, Mar. 29 2005 | Author: Griffith

Microsoft bashing season is open again and this time it isn’t Windows that’s being targeted, it’s their popular text editor by an associate professor of the University of Washington. According to him the grammar tool that Microsoft Word uses is very rudimentary.

A study done by him shows that the grammar tool that Microsoft Word uses is very rudimentary as many news websites are pointing out with mock phrases such as "In trust we Word" in Cnet.

I’m not sure of how good my grammar is but it’s ironic that I use Word for spellchecking since it’s what I have “at hand”. If anyone knows of a better tool for this purpose please tell me (English isn’t my native language, I’m Portuguese).

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6 Responses for "Microsoft Word gets an F in grammar"

Romain

March 29th, 2005 at 8:03 am
1

I don’t know of any other grammar/spelling tool in english. I’m french. And french grammar in Word is as bad as it seems to be in English.
There is one amazing tool for french grammar/spelling/dictionnary/you-name-it that is called Antidote. Made by people from Quebec. It’s very complete and integrates itself very well in Microsoft Word (and others).
David Fayer

March 29th, 2005 at 8:43 am
2

StyleWriter seems to be the ticket!
http://www.editorsoftware.com/stylewriter-software/
Victor

March 29th, 2005 at 9:22 am
3

Bom Dia,

My spelling is awful and English is my first (and pretty much only) language. My trick for fixing up spelling on posts and the like is ClipMate (http://www.thornsoft.com/index.htm). It has many handy uses, one of which is doing a spell check on what’s in your clipboard.
waylman

March 29th, 2005 at 9:34 am
4

While I agree that Word’s spell checking isn’t the best, it certainly is better than OpenOffice. If more than one letter is wrong, OO never seems to provide suggestions even close to what I’m looking for, if any at all. In Word I’ve had half the letters wrong on occasion and it gave the proper suggestion, albeit far down in the list. No, it’s not fool proof, but the best I’ve used. (Oh yeah, Gmail’s spell checker is pretty good too.) Of course, I can’t spell worth beens. I’m one of those people who can’t use a dictionary to find out how to spell a word because I can’t find it in the dictionary because my guess at how it is spelled is so far off (how many times can I use because in one sentence?). Add a few typing errors to the mix, and I can really foul up the best of spell checkers.
Josh

July 18th, 2005 at 10:34 am
5

does anyone know of a good grammar checker that plugs into word.Or even a stand alone
Anonymous

February 5th, 2007 at 2:34 am
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