Spell Check
IV. Great feature to help students turn in corrected work. Teach the keyboard shortcut F7 or  right click on the mispelled word to make the students more effcient when spell checking. If there are no spelling suggestions the student will have to try again to get closer to the correct spelling. For students with special needs a small Franklin dictionary where they can place an *if they do not know the next letter may be useful.
1a. Right click on any word that is underlined in red and choose the correct spelling form the list.
Alternative
1b. Drag down the Tools menu to Spelling and Grammar (Or press the F7 key) find the correct word on the list and choose change.
Remove red & green lines
Consider turning off the “correct spelling or grammar as you type” features for students who become overwhelmed by seeing their spelling and grammar errors while they are typing.
1. Drag down the Tools menu to Options
2. Click to remove the check from “check spelling as you type”, and “Check grammar as you type”

Readability Statistics
*This will give approximate readability and grade level
*Readability is rated on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentences.
* Grade level 
    Microsoft’s help guide explains grade level as; “Rating text on US grade-school level. For example, a score of 8.0 means that an eighth grader can understand the document. For most standard documents, aim for a score of approximately 7.0 to 8.0.”
*Reading Ease
Microsoft’s help guide explains reading ease as; “Rating text on a 100-point scale; the higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. For most standard documents, aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70.”
1. Drag down the Tools menu to Options
2. Click on the “Show Readability Statistics”
*You will only need to turn this feature on once.
*The statistics will appear whenever you finish spell checking using either the Spell check option from the menu, F7, or the Spelling and Grammar option from the Standard menu. It does NOT work if you correct the entire document by right clicking on misspelled words.

Thesaurus
V Students often use the same words repeatedly in a document, because it is a word they can spell. Teach them to use Thesaurus to find the synonyms of words.
1. Right click on the word and drag to Synonyms.
2. Click on the desired word.
OR
1. Highlight the word to be lookup.
2. Drag down the Tools menu to Language and drag over to Thesaurus.
3. Click on the desired word and choose Replace.
Or
Highlight the word and press the Shift key +F7

Change Case
VI. Typing in all upper case letters reduces the readability of your document. In emails all caps sends a message to your reader that you are shouting. If a student accidentally types with his Caps Lock key on you can easily have them fix their document by:
1. Highlight the text
2. Drag the Format menu to Change Case
3. Click on the Sentence case or tOGGLE cASE feature (depending on error)
4. Click OK

Show Hide Formats
VII. Turn on the Show/Hide feature so that a student can self check the format of their work. A dot will appear between each word to represent when the space bar was used. An arrow pointing to the right will represent the tab key. A backwards P represents the Enter Key being used.
*Click on the backwards P icon located on the standard toolbar (to the left of the zoom icon)