{"id":408,"date":"2006-03-16T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-03-16T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T22:26:00","slug":"word-style-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Word &#8216;Style&#8217; Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that you can set Microsoft word to check for &#8216;style&#8217; in your writing? Yeah that&#8217;s right, I said <em>style<\/em>. In the style settings, you can set it to check for the following and much more: Use of And, But, and Hopefully in the opening of a sentence; Cliches, Colloquiaslisms, and Jargon; Sentence length; <em>Unclear Phrasing<\/em>; and get this &#8211; <em>Wordiness.<\/em> Compare that to Appleworks, which (as far as I know) doesn&#8217;t have a freakin&#8217; <em>grammer<\/em> checker!<\/p>\n<p>  Also, you can turn on &#8216;readablity statistics,&#8217; which tell you the basics (word count, char count), the above average (avg. sentences per paragraph, and avg. words per sentence), and the ridiculously above average, and a bit average (<em>reading ease and grade level<\/em>). Read &#8211; <em><b>Grade Level.<\/b><\/em> It actually delivers a GPA based on the document. It seems a bit off, though. I have 1 sentence and an incomplete title, and it gave me a 3.7. Yeah, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that you can set Microsoft word to check for &#8216;style&#8217; in your writing? Yeah that&#8217;s right, I said style. In the style settings, you can set it to check for the following and much more: Use of And, But, and Hopefully in the opening of a sentence; Cliches, Colloquiaslisms, and Jargon; Sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}