This article lists the availability of the spelling, grammar, and writing style options (refinements) in Microsoft Editor. Learn how to get more from Editor with Microsoft 365.
Note: For information on grammar and style settings for earlier versions of Office, see Select grammar and writing style options in Office.
Not all languages have the same sets of refinements. For details about the grammar and refinement settings available for a language, follow the link to download a Word document.
Languages marked with an asterisk (*) include context-sensitive spell checking. Japanese writing refinements and Hebrew grammar and writing refinements (**) are not yet available in the desktop Word app.
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Spell check |
Grammar check |
Writing refinements |
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Afrikaans |
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Albanian |
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ArabicDownload details |
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Armenian |
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Assamese |
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Azerbaijani - (Latin) |
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Bangla (Bengali India) |
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Bangla (Bangladesh) |
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Basque (Basque) |
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Bosnian - (Latin) |
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Bulgarian |
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Catalan |
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Chinese (Simplified)Download details |
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Chinese (Traditional)Download details |
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Croatian |
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CzechDownload details |
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DanishDownload details |
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DutchDownload details |
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English *Download details |
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Estonian |
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FinnishDownload details |
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French *Download details |
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Galician |
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Georgian |
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German *Download details |
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Greek |
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Gujarati |
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Hausa - Latin script |
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HebrewDownload details |
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Hindi |
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HungarianDownload details |
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Icelandic |
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Igbo |
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Indonesian |
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Irish Gaelic |
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isiXhosa |
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isiZulu |
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Italian *Download details |
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Japanese |
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Kannada |
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Kazakh |
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Kinyarwanda |
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Kiswahili |
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Konkani |
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KoreanDownload details |
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Kyrgyz |
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Latvian |
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Lithuanian |
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Luxembourgish |
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Macedonian (North Macedonia) |
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Malay (Brunei) |
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Malay (Latin) |
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Malayalam |
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Maltese |
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Maori |
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Marathi |
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Nepali |
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Norwegian (Bokmål)Download details |
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Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
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Odia |
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Pashto |
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Persian (Farsi) |
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PolishDownload details |
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Portuguese (Brazil) *Download details |
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Portuguese (Portugal)Download details |
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Punjabi (Gurmukhi) |
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Romanian |
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Romansh |
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RussianDownload details |
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Scottish Gaelic |
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Serbian - (Cyrillic, Serbia) |
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Serbian - (Latin, Serbia) |
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Sesotho sa Leboa |
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Setswana |
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Sinhala |
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Slovak |
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Slovenian |
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SpanishDownload details |
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SwedishDownload details |
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Tamil |
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Tatar (Cyrillic) |
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Telugu |
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Thai |
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TurkishDownload details |
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Ukrainian |
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Urdu |
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Uzbek - (Latin) |
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Valencian |
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Vietnamese |
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Welsh |
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Wolof |
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Yoruba |
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