Microsoft Word Auto-Summarizer

Automatically summarize a document
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1.  On the Tools menu, click AutoSummarize.
2.  Select the type of summary you want.
3.  In the Percent of original box, type or select the level of detail to include in the summary. Select a higher percentage of the original document to include more detail.
4.  If you don't want AutoSummarize to replace your existing keywords and comments on the Summary tab in the Properties dialog box (File menu), clear the Update document statistics check box.
Notes
  • To cancel a summary in progress, press ESC.
  • After you create your summary, review it to make sure it covers your document's key points. Keep in mind that the summary text is a rough draft and you'll probably need to fine-tune it.

Microsoft Word Readability

Display readability statistics
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1.  On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
2.  Select the Check grammar with spelling check box.
3.  Select the Show readability statistics check box, and then click OK.
4.  On the Standard toolbar(toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Spelling and Grammar .
When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it displays information about the reading level of the document.
Notes
  • If you've set up Word to check the spelling and grammar of text in other languages, and a document contains text in multiple languages, Word displays readability statistics for text in the last language that was checked. For example, if a document contains three paragraphs — the first in English, the second in French, and the third in English — Word displays readability statistics for the third English paragraph only.
  • For some European languages within an English document, Word displays only information about counts and averages, not readability.

Readability scores
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When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it can display information about the reading level of the document, including the following readability scores. Each readability score bases its rating on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence.