If you’ve ever used Microsoft Word, chances are you’ve seen that jagged green line appear beneath something you’ve written -- scolding you for drafting a fragmented sentence, maybe, or for slipping ...

While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...

Microsoft Word's spell check has come a long way from when a googly-eyed paper clip unfailingly assumed you were writing a letter. Now it accurately spots grammatical mistakes, autocorrects misspelled ...

As Wednesday marks National Grammar Day, it’s interesting to note that vast majority of today’s high school and college students use the Spelling & Grammar Checker feature in either Word or Google ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...

Hello. I apologize for asking a such an application-specific question in this general forum, but I am desperate. In Microsoft Word, under Windows 7, I'm finding that the "Ignore" and the "Ignore All" ...

While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...