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Anyone, Topher, know what happened to the Grammar Check in MS Word?

I seem to remember a feature that would tell you what grade level your writing is, based on at least 2 scales.

It's been a while, but I can't find that on 2003....

What grade? As in '8th grade'? I'd be interested in seeing this feature.

Exactly, I think it was in the Word 95/97 era.

For example, if you took a few of Mobi's posts, it would say he is writing at a 3rd grade level.

Oh wow, I remember that old thing. Either I was an incredibly gifted writer back in grade school, or it was overrating me by about six or seven grades.



Of course, I'm going with the former.

If I recall correctly, it doesn't tell you the grade level you're writing at. It tells you the grade level you'd have to be to read it (subtle distinction). Normally, the lower the grade level the better, within reason (more readability is good). It had to do with average word length and average sentence length.

I think this is what you want:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/ ... 0830131033

Lower the grade the better? Depends upon what subject you are writing. I'd rather have a higher grade level.

I just checked my college papers I've done recently with that in that link (thanks Topher). Yup, 12th grade level, every single one. The only papers that went lower than that were some first person creative writing that I've done. I wonder how Word decides which grade the paper's at...