Make Office Better
Check your emails make sense
Word and Outlook can assess how easy to read your documents and emails will be to others. It does this through three criteria that calculate the average number of syllables per word, words per sentence and sentences per paragraph in your documents and emails. To use this, you first need to change a number of default settings.
In Word, click File at the top left, Options at the bottom, then Proofing on the left. Next, find the ‘When correcting spelling and grammar in Word’ section. Here, tick ‘Check grammar with spelling’ and ‘Show readability statistics’, then click OK.
In Outlook, start writing a new email, click File, Options, then click ‘Spelling and Autocorrect’ button on the right. Tick the same boxes ticked in Word (see above), then click OK.
Now open any document or email, click the Review tab at the top right, then ‘Spelling and Grammar’ at the top left. You’ll now be prompted to correct any spelling mistakes (if there are any), after which you’ll see a Readability Statistics window.
In the Readability section (see screenshot) you’ll first see a score for the percentage of passive sentences (lower is better). Flesch Reading Ease measures your file’s readability on a 100-point scale – the higher the score, the easier it is to read. Flesch-kincaid Grade Level rates your text based on how US school pupils would find it. A score of 7.0 means that an average seventh-grader (12-13 years old) will be able to read your text easily. You can find out more about how Microsoft determines these values at www.snipca.com/22535.
To change the playback speed of your footage, click the Edit tab below ‘Video tools’ (see screenshot). Click the Speed dropdown menu, then select a value (or enter a specific one). Any value less than one will produce a slow-motion effect, while anything higher will increase the playback speed. The speed adjustment will be applied to the entire video and will distort any dialogue or soundtrack.
You may want to only slow down or speed up a particular section of your video. Click your video at the point you want the effect to start, then click Split. Next, click where you want it to end, then click Split again. This creates a separate section within your video that you can edit independently of the rest. Click this section to select it and change its speed using the steps described above. To select all sections of your video, press Ctrl+a.