Microsoft Edge update will stop you making an embarrassing blunder
A built-in grammar editor is now available in Edge
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Embarrassing spelling and grammar mistakes will soon be a thing of the past inMicrosoft EdgeasMicrosoftis now rolling out a built-in grammar editor for itsbrowser.
Microsoft Editoris the software giant’sGrammarlycompetitor and while it’s normally accessed via a browser extension, the company has now decided to directly integrate it into Edge.
Just like with otherwriting software, Microsoft Editor provides users with both grammar and punctuation corrections and suggestions as they write. In Edge, Editor will be available in over 20 languages but the writing tool will only provide feedback on the main language used in the browser.
In addition to its existing features, Microsoft has said that it will soon begin rolling out text predictions in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese in Editor in order to help users not only write better but also faster.
Web Select
Besides its new Microsoft Editor integration, Microsoft is also bringing another new feature to Edge called web select though it was initially known assmart copywhen it was first announced two years ago.
Web select makes it easier to select formatted content like tables, images and text on the web. The feature allows users to quickly select entire paragraphs in their original formatting or copy only the cells they want to in a table. From here, you can then paste content with its original formatting into aWorddocument or intoOneNoteto reference later.
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While web select will likely be a useful feature for Edge users, it has certainly taken quite a while to arrive in Microsoft’s browser. The company first began testing the feature all the way back in November of 2020.
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It’s worth noting that web select isn’t the same asweb capturewhich allows users to take screenshots of webpages and annotate them before sharing or saving them.
In order to try out Microsoft Editor and web select in Microsoft Edge, you first need to make sure you’re running the latest version of Microsoft’s browser. To check if you are, you can click on the three-dot menu in the top right corner of the browser and chooseHelp & feedbackand thenAbout Microsoft Edge.
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