don't worry you're not the only one that
makes mistakes but before turning in
that paper or sending in that cover
letter let's take a look at the proofing
features that you'll find in Word 2007
you'll find these commands on the review
tab and the proofing group in this group
there are a variety of features such as
word count which keeps track of the
number of words lines and paragraphs and
selection there are also several
language features that translate text
and allow you to set your language
options but the proofing command that
you will probably use most often is a
spelling and grammar tool there are many
ways you can use this tool by default
the spelling and grammar check is on
when you first use word you can see that
as I was typing my cover letter I
misspelled two words dear and
exceedingly the red and blue wavy lines
indicated something is misspelled word
uses the blue line for this awesome new
feature called contextual spelling you
know how sometimes you may get similar
words confused as you type such as there
versus there or in this case dear like
my dear Aunt Sally versus dear like the
animal well Word 2007 looked at how was
using the word dear and get tailed
something just wasn't right if I right
click on the blue underlined word I'm
given a suggestion in this case word
only gives me one option to choose from
so I'll click on the correct word and
you will notice that the correction was
made the red line also indicates a
misspelled word all I need to do is
right click and again select the correct
spelling of the word something looked a
little out of place towards the bottom
of the letter here it is it looks as if
I have too many periods the grammar
check works using the right-click menu
as well and it looks as though I was
correct I have one too many periods
let's see something else was underlined
ah completes let's right-click and see
what it says about completes ok as you
can see here it gives me a suggestion
but let's go down to our
grammar options and check it out if I
click on grammar a dialog box appears
and suggest that I change completes to
complete okay so I'll just click on
change and it changes the word in my
document these lines are very helpful
but they cause quite a disturbance while
I'm typing I'm going to add an
additional comma behind sincerely to
demonstrate how we can change our
options I can prevent these lines from
appearing as I'm typing by clicking on
spelling and grammar' when I click on
spelling and grammar' a dialog box
appears I can click on options and this
brings up a word options dialog box
there are a couple of proofing options
that you can choose from but for now I
just want to get rid of those lines when
correcting spelling and grammar and word
seems to fit my needs I can simply
remove the check from check spelling as
you type and click OK from this point on
word will not underline misspelled words
in my document as I type now remember
the spelling and grammar tool is not
100% correct all the time so you may
want to get someone to look over your
work before you turn it in good luck