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Word 365 Editor: Difference between Formal Writing and Professional Writing

MS Word 365/Win10:


When I press [F7] to spell/grammar check a doc, the EDITOR displays on the right. It includes the following option per writing style.


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What's the difference between Formal & Professional? The context is a user guide for a web application, so which is the better choic


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Steve

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Thank you. I think I'll stick with FORMAL as I'm not great at punctuation. Wondering though about the RESUME alerts. I get these on docs that are hardly a resume (e.g., user guide, creative writing). What's up with that?

The Editor pane doesn't "know" what the content is about. However, some of the settings are typically associated with what might be included in a resumé (i.e. academic degrees). If you click the category, it'll go to the first instance: click through a few to get an idea of which grammar settings are being considered for the category.

If you have trouble with punctuation, you are by no means alone! Use the same method as above to examine which settings Word is using to flag items, then turn those settings on to be alerted by default (in any of the writing styles).