If you find yourself hopping between a web browser and your Word documents a lot, you’ll appreciate Researcher, a new feature that’ll let you dive into reliable sources right from Word.
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You may use the new tool to add quotes and “properly formatted citation” to documents.
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It’s an incredibly handy service that Microsoft plans to expand upon in the coming months with additional sources “like national science and health centers, well-known encyclopedias, and history databases”.
But by far the best part is that it automatically adds citations for your articles as soon as you use a particular reference, much to the the joy of procrastinating college students everywhere. Leveraging machine learning and natural language processing-mixed with input from Microsoft team of linguists-Editor makes suggestions to help you improve your writing. It’s basically spellcheck on steroids. Initially, it will help you simplify and streamline written communications by flagging unclear phrases or complex words, such as recommending “most” in place of “the majority of”. So when you once again use “affect” instead of “effect”, Word won’t just tell you that you’re wrong, but also explain why (just like that poor uninsured adjunct who taught your English 101 class has probably done a million times now, too).
The feature makes it so easy to write research paper. Spelling errors will still be underlined with the red squiggle presently employed in Word and grammar errors will continue to receive a blue squiggle.
Meanwhile, the new style suggestions will be underline by a fancy new hold dotted line. This feature is created to get better over time as it learns habits like who you interact with the most and whose emails sit unopened.
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Writers will get expert advice from a cloud-based digital writing assistant that gets more proficient over time. While I’ve found that Priority Inbox and Focused Inbox on mobile do occasionally highlight different emails, it’s hard to imagine wading through my inbox without these tools, so it’s good to see them come to the desktop, as well. Now we’re rolling it out to Outlook on Windows, Mac and Outlook on the web. Your “Focused” inbox becomes your primary view, and only includes the messages it thinks are essential to your day-to-day happenings.
