Did you know Grammarly has a product for just about every kind of writing you do? We have an online editor for drafting long documents, plus desktop apps and a Microsoft Office add-in if you prefer not to write in your browser. The Grammarly Keyboard for iOS and Android keeps you looking polished even when you’re writing from your phone. And of course, there’s the Grammarly browser extension, which checks your writing on all your favorite websites.
The word e-mail is now more often written email, for instance. A grammar checker like ProWritingAid or Grammarly can help, or you can search on Google to see how the word tends to be written by others.
- Launch Microsoft Word on your PC. On the Home Tab 'Quick Access Toolbar', you can see the Grammarly Add-in. Click the Open Grammarly button to enable it.
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How does Grammarly check your writing?
Underlying all of Grammarly’s products is a sophisticated artificial intelligence system built to analyze sentences written in English. Grammarly’s team of computational linguists and deep learning engineers designs cutting-edge algorithms that learn the rules and hidden patterns of good writing by analyzing millions of sentences from research corpora. (A corpus is a large collection of text that has been organized and labeled for research and development purposes.) When you write with Grammarly, our AI analyzes each sentence and looks for ways to improve it, whether it’s correcting a verb tense, suggesting a stronger synonym, or offering a clearer sentence structure.
As you can imagine, a complex AI system like this one requires a lot of computing power—much more than a personal computer or mobile device can provide. For that reason, it runs in the cloud, rather than locally on your device. All you need to check your writing with a Grammarly product is an Internet connection.
When you use Grammarly, you can help improve its suggestions. Anytime you hit “ignore” on an unhelpful suggestion, Grammarly gets a little bit smarter. Over time, our team can make adjustments to the suggestions with high ignore rates to make them more helpful.
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There’s more to good writing than grammar and spelling
Grammarly’s earliest breakthroughs in AI-powered writing enhancement happened in the realm of grammar, spelling, and punctuation correction—a fact that’s reflected in our name to this day. We could have stopped there, but the truth is, just because something’s grammatically correct doesn’t mean it’s clear or compelling.
Over the years, we’ve continually added new types of feedback to help you fix wordiness, vagueness and hedging, poor word choice, gnarly sentence structure, and even plagiarism. We add new writing checks all the time, so when you see a suggestion you don’t remember encountering before, it’s probably not your imagination.
All about context
Grammarly’s writing tools are designed to work where you do—on your phone and your computer, in your web browser or your word processor. The difference between Grammarly and built-in spelling and grammar checkers isn’t just accuracy or breadth of feedback. It’s also contextual awareness. After all, an email to your boss probably shouldn’t sound like a text to your best friend.
Grammarly’s browser extension, for example, makes stricter grammar suggestions and offers ways to help you sound more formal and professional when you’re writing on LinkedIn. Grammarly Premium users can adjust their style settings for any text field on any site. When you’re writing something formal, you can switch to the academic or business settings to flag contractions, unclear antecedents, and other casualisms you want to avoid. But when you’re posting on Facebook and you want to write in a more relaxed voice, Grammarly’s casual setting will turn off alerts for the passive voice and informalities like slang and sentence fragments.
It’s easy to get started
Ready to give it a try? Installation is simple and free. Read on for some helpful tips about Grammarly’s products.
When you add the Grammarly extension to your browser, you’ll be able to directly access Grammarly’s writing suggestions from Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and most other sites on the web. You’ll know it’s working when you see a green G in the lower right corner of the text field you’re writing in. Basic writing corrections will appear inline, and clicking the green G allows you to open a more robust pop-up editor to access Premium corrections.
Adding the Grammarly Keyboard to your iPhone or Android device helps you write clearly and effectively in any app, on any website. So you can say goodbye to textfails, and you can relax when you need to answer an urgent email on the go.
If you need to write a longer document, check out the online Grammarly Editor (sign into your account to access it), or download Grammarly’s add-in for MS Office (available for PCs) and native desktop apps (PC and Mac).
Our team is working hard to bring you products and features that help you express yourself. To learn more about what that means and to get an idea of where we’re headed, check out our post about Grammarly’s vision of creating a comprehensive communication assistant.
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Grammarly for Word is a versatile tool for editing your writing.- You can add Grammarly to Word by downloading the Microsoft Office plugin or through Microsoft AppSource.
- You can also install the Grammarly desktop app on your Mac or PC and drag-and-drop your Word document into the app.
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Grammarly has become a popular digital writing tool for eliminating and protecting against everything from poor writing in rushed emails to bad structuring in your dissertation.
Launched in 2009, its dynamic algorithms cover a wide range of context-based text editing issues like basic spelling and grammar errors, but also word usage, sentence style, wordiness, and punctuation. Users can also upgrade to paid subscription tiers for individuals or businesses, and receive assistance with more complex issues like fluency, tone, clarity, plagiarism, and more.
If you're looking for something that goes deeper than Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar tool, this freemium subscription is the right for you.
How to use Grammarly with Microsoft Word
Grammarly offers several ways to use its services, from a browser-based website and extensions to desktop apps and a mobile keyboard.
You can edit your Word doc with Grammarly directly in the Microsoft program or drag and drop your Word doc into the Grammarly desktop app for quick assistance on edits.
The Grammarly desktop app for PC is compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. For Mac, the device should be updated to macOS 10.9 or higher.
Since Microsoft Word is a separate system, you'll need to have a subscription to Microsoft Office in order to purchase or download extensions onto Word. For an 'Add-in' to be successfully added, you have to have Microsoft Office 2007, '10, '13, '16, or '19 for compatible operation on Windows. On Mac, it's strongly suggested to have Microsoft Office version 16 or higher.
If you want to use Grammarly alongside Word's spelling and grammar checker, here's how you can do it.
How To Add In Grammarly In Word
How to install the Grammarly plugin for Word
- Go to the Grammarly website and click 'Get the add-in' to download the free MS Office Grammarly plugin.
- After it finishes downloading, click the file in the bottom left of your browser window. Click the Grammarly Add-in download link.Quick tip:
- In the welcome window that appears, select 'Get Started.'
- Click the box next to Grammarly for Word to ensure you download it. Quick tip:
- Choose 'Install.'
Check the Grammarly for Word box and then click Install.
- After it finishes installing, select 'Finish.'
Click 'Finish' to end the Grammarly plugin installation.
- Launch Word and open either a blank or existing document.
- On the Home tab, click Open Grammarly. Look for the Open Grammarly Icon in the Home Tab bar.Quick tip:
- The Grammarly window will appear on the right. Click 'Log in.'
The Grammarly window will appear on the right of your Word document.
- A new browser tab or window will appear with the Grammarly log in page loaded. Enter your username and password, then click 'Sign in.' Quick tip:
- Click the Word icon in the desktop taskbar. You should now see Grammarly working.
An alternative way to install Grammarly for Word
There are two ways you can add Grammarly to your Microsoft Office Word software. You can also visit Microsoft AppSource and search for Grammarly. Once the app appears in the search results, click 'Get It Now.'
You can also use Microsoft AppSource to add the Grammarly plugin to Word.When a pop-up window appears, click 'Continue' before hitting 'Open in Word' to launch the add-in. To confirm it's been added to Word, open a new Word document and look for the Open Grammarly option in the Home tab.
How to drag and drop Word docs into the Grammarly desktop app for Windows
- Go to the Grammarly website and click 'Download Grammarly for Windows.'
The desktop app download page will only be available on Windows devices.
- After it's finished downloading, click the Grammarly download link at the bottom of your browser window.
- Once it's loaded, the Grammarly app icon will flash in your taskbar. Click it to open the application.
- Click 'Sign in.' Click Sign in to begin logging into Grammarly on your Windows computer.
- Enter your username and password.
- You'll be redirected to a new page where you should click the 'Open Grammarly' button to be taken back to the Grammarly desktop app for Windows.
- Either download or go to the file location of the Word document you want to edit in Grammarly. Drag the file from its folder location and hold it over the Grammarly icon.
Click and drag the Word file you want to edit in Grammarly and drop it over the Grammarly icon.
- You will see an import screen before the document appears in Grammarly. The import screen will appear while your Word doc us loading in Grammarly.Quick tip:
How to drag and drop Word docs into the Grammarly desktop app for Mac
- Go to the Grammarly website and click 'Download Grammarly for Mac.'
Click the Grammarly Add-in download link.
- Click the Grammarly download link at the bottom of your browser window.
- Once it's loaded, an application window will appear. Click the Grammarly icon and drag it on top of the folder to its right.
Click 'Finish' to end the Grammarly plugin installation.
- Exit out of the window and click on the Finder icon in the dock.
- Open your Applications menu and locate the Grammarly app.
Access the Grammarly app in the Applications menu of the Finder.
- Click on the app icon and drag it into the dock.
Drag and drop the Grammarly icon into your dock.
- Either download or go to the file location of the Word document you want to edit in Grammarly. Drag the file from its folder location and drop it over the Grammarly icon. Quick tip:
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