Office 365 Other New Features

Microsoft is getting some new online app additions to help you do your research and to clean up your grammar. Microsoft is adding Researcher which is touted to give you easier access to credible sources and and cited content.

Researcher helps you find and insert reliable sources and content for your paper in fewer steps. Within your Word document you can explore material related to your topic and add it, including his properly formatted citation, with just a single click. Researcher uses the bing knowledge graph to pull the appropriate content from the web and provide a safe structured and credible information.

Microsoft plans on expanding Researcher’s source of reference materials to also include places like national science and health centers, well-known encyclopedias, history databases and much more. Microsoft plants also bring this program to your mobile devices so that no matter what you are using you will have this resource available to you. Researcher is available today for Office 365 subscribers using Word 2016 on Windows desktops.

Another new Office 365 app called Editor, will assist you with advanced proofing and editing of your documents. Microsoft is leveraging machine learning and natural language processing-mixed with input from their own team of linguists-to make suggestions to help you improve your writing. Initially it will help you simplify and streamline written communications by flagging unclear phrases or complex words. As an example:  recommending “most” in place of “the majority of”.

Since editor is a cloud-based service, it should get better in time. This fall, it will expand upon words current spelling and grammar tools to help you with understanding why words or phrases may not be accurate. By doing this it is teaching you at the same time it is correcting.