SmartEdit for Word

SmartEdit for Word: A useful Word plug-in that lets you edit texts and identify various spelling mistakes

SmartEdit for Word is a streamlined application designed to work as a Microsoft Word plugin that helps you check and correct your texts for grammar and phrase structure errors, punctuation mistakes, and repetitions among others.

Once it finishes installing, you’ll find the plugin in Microsoft’s Word ribbon, specifically in the ‘SmartEdit’ tab.

SmartEdit for Word was designed to make it as easy as possible to use MS Word’s advanced editing tools. As a result, users can paste a piece of text from another file, open a document or write it directly in the currently open file and then click on the ‘Open SmartEdit’ option to access the check functions for punctuation, dialog and prose.

The tool offers the possibility to generate reports for various categories such as ‘Sentence Start’, ‘Adverb Usage’, ‘Proper Nouns’ and others.

In the ‘Punctuation’ area, the plugin allows you to set the punctuation marks that should be thoroughly verified such as ‘Exclamation Marks’, ‘Curly Quotes’, ‘Hyphens’, ‘Two or More Space’ and other symbols. It can also generate reports for the items found in the selected categories so you can analyze it later.

The two components also allow you to decide the reports you wish to generate, for instance ‘Adverb Usage’, ‘Proper Nouns’, ‘Profanity’, ‘Sentence Start’ and several others. For each report, the word in question is displayed, along with a fragment illustrating its usage.

The ‘Punctuation’ section of SmartEdit for Word lets you specify which punctuation marks should be closely checked, for instance ‘Curly Quotes’, ‘Straight Apostrophes’, ‘Hyphens’, ‘Exclamation Marks’, ‘Two or More Space’ and other such symbols, generating a report on the discovered items for you to review.