How to get suggestions for refining your writing from Editor in Outlook?

Microsoft adds Editor, a spell and grammar check tool, to Outlook for Microsoft 365 subscribers. The tool is automatically enabled in Outlook for Microsoft 365 subscribers whose system language is supported by Editor. Please read on to check out how Microsoft Editor helps you proof your emails.

Note: Microsoft Editor is only available for Outlook 365 subscribers. For other Outlook users, please follow this instruction: How To Turn On / Off Check Spelling In Outlook?

Get suggestions for refining your writing from Editor in Outlook

1. Once you have written an email, click Editor in the ribbon on the Message tab. Alternatively, you can go to Review tab and click on Spelling and Grammar.

2. You will see an Editor pane appear on the right side of the page.

3. From the pane, you can see the total number of suggestions, you can click on it to see the suggestions one by one.

4. If you have entered a proper noun, you can add it to dictionary; If you want to replace the original text with the suggested one, just click on the suggestion.

Alternatively, you can right click on an underlined word or sentence to see Editor's suggestion on the right-clicking list as shown below.

How To Automatically Underline Misspelled Words Or Spelling Errors In Outlook?

As we know, misspelling is awkward in an email. But how to prevent from spelling errors in emails? This article is talking about automatically marking all misspelled words with red underlines as we compose messages in Outlook.

How To Turn On / Off Check Spelling In Outlook?

Normally it checks words spellings in your email messages automatically when you are typing words in Outlook. However, sometimes special names or terms, for instance the name of your organization, are not recognized and marked as mistakes. Sometimes running the Check Spelling feature may also make your Outlook work slowing down. Therefore here is an easy tutorial about how to turn off or on the Check Spelling feature in Microsoft Outlook.

How To Set Default Proofing/Spelling Language In Outlook?

For example, when you type the word of Colour in the British way in an email, this word will be marked as misspelling as below screenshot shown. It will be quite boring to get such misspelling if you type words in British way frequently. Actually, you can easily fix this problem with changing the default proofing language in Outlook.