With many locations such as schools and publications checking for plagiarism, this is a handy check to use. The Similarity checker is a helpful tool to see if any online writings closely resemble yours. After you address each issue, you should see the number decrease in the sidebar and your score increase at the top! When you finish handling the item found, click the arrow at the bottom of the pop-up to go to the next one in the list. You can also click the light bulb icon to see a helpful tip for that particular item.

Click to use the suggestion or choose to Ignore instead. You’ll see a small pop-up explaining the issue and providing a suggestion. In our example, we see Formality has the number 4, so we click to see each problem in our writing. If you see a checkmark next to a category like spelling, clarity, or conciseness, that means you’ve done well! If you see a number, click to review the issues that were found. The following two sections for Corrections and Refinements are what you want to review. Keep in mind that the more formal your document is, the more stringent the refinements will be. Choose from Formal, Professional, or Casual in the drop-down list. Next, you can select the style of writing you’re using for the document. Obviously, the higher your score, the better. The tool calculates this score “based on the number and type of suggestions to be reviewed and the document length”.

The first thing you’ll see in the sidebar is your Editor Score. You’ll immediately see the Editor sidebar open with everything you need to improve your document.

Head to the Home tab and click the Editor button in the toolbar. Visit the Word website, sign in, and open your document. So we’ll walk through using the tool there first. Currently, Microsoft Editor offers a few extra features in Word for the web than in the desktop version of Word.

Microsoft text editor