You navigate to the Word on the menu and choose Preferences. Microsoft Word 2008 works like Mac OS X applications. You click the OK button when your done setting Word options. Click the Word Options button to change options.Ĭhoose the Proofing option in the left column, then check the Show readability statistics check box, as shown. You click on the Office Button in the upper left hand corner. The Office Button holds the key to what were once tool options. Microsoft Word 2007 has the Office Button. This shows you how to enable Microsoft Word 20 readability statistics. At least, those changes that I run into while writing for McGraw-Hill on my new book projects. Be patient once the ten statistics are completed, they are displayed on the screen.Some tips and techniques for Word seems like a good add to the blog. In fact, depending on the speed of your system, the length of your document, and its complexity, it can take quite a bit of time to run. When you run the macro, understand that it takes a bit of time to run. ReadabilityStatistics(J)ĭocStats = DocStats &. The following macro does just that:ĭocStats = DocStats &. To display all ten statistics (as would be done in a complete grammar check of your document), all you need to do is have your macro step through the various members of the collection and display their values. There are 10 individual elements in the collection, as follows: Index This macro displays a number that represents the Flesch Reading Ease value, ninth member of the ReadabilityStatistics collection. To get an idea how such a macro could be written, consider the following single-line macro: The heart of such a macro would be the ReadabilityStatistics collection. You can, however, create a macro that will display the readability statistics quite nicely. Unfortunately, Word does not provide a way to do this. There may be times when you want to only display the readability statistics, without going through the complete grammar check first.
When you do a grammar check on your document, the very last step performed by Word is to display a set of readability statistics that you can use to analyze the presentation of your content.
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