Microsoft’s systems are getting not just the phrase you choose but additional, non-selected, words. Rewrite extends the selection to include the extra word and searches for that. For example, selecting ‘Now is the’ then click Get Suggestions. Sometimes Rewrite adds a word to the selection to complete a phrase. Similarly, this extremely overworked Redmond sentence yields no suggestions.īut highlight the first phrase only and alternatives are found. For example, this famous sentence has no suggestions.īut highlight a few words and Rewrite finds some ideas. Rewrite works best with short phrases rather than whole sentences. Read Sentence without Change Getting the most from Rewrite Under each suggestion are some ‘Read Aloud’ options. Hover your mouse over a suggestion and you’ll see a temporary change in the document itself.Ĭlick on a suggestion to replace your phrase in the document. changing ‘We are’ to ‘We’re’ or vice-versa. The phrase is highlighted in yellow, temporarily.Įditor pane appears with suggested alternatives below. Select a phrase in your document, right-click and choose Rewrite (Preview). “We want to offer suggestions, but we cannot connect to the service right now” Using Rewrite All through our tests we occasionally got errors despite being on a high-speed connection in London, UK. Rewrite is a cloud based feature (Sorry ‘ Connected Experience’) so anything you ask Rewrite is sent to Microsoft’s servers. The feature is still called ‘Preview’ even though it’s in public releases of Word, not just Insiders beta versions. See if you have it by right-clicking on a phrase and look for Rewrite (Preview). See The dirty little secrets of Word’s new Rewrite feature Whether the feature appears in Word seems to depend on various unknown factors (English language only, access to MS cloud servers, relative position of the sun and moon etc.). However, in practice the release is random.
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Rewrite is supposed to be available in Word 365 for Windows v 1909 (build 12026.20264 and later). Speaking of overworked phrases, here’s Rewrite’s suggestions for Microsoft. If you want a different wording for an overworked phrase, Rewrite could help. Rewrite is promoted as ‘Say it another way’. It’s ‘synonyms for phrases’ not just single words. Microsoft Word can now suggest alternative wordings for phrases and sentences in a feature called Rewrite. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
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