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jjTest your document's readability
Applies to: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Word 2007

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When Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office Word finish checking the spelling and grammar,you can choose to display information about the reading level of the document, including readability scores according to the following tests:

Flesch Reading Ease
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
What doyou want to do?
Enable readability statistics
Understand readability scores
Understand how languages affect readability scores
Enable readability statistics

Which program are you using?Outlook
Word
OUTLOOK
On the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the Spelling tab, and then click Spelling and AutoCorrection.
Click Proofing.
Under When correcting grammar in Outlook, select the Checkgrammar with spelling check box.
Select the Show readability statistics check box.
After you enable this feature, open a file that you want to check, and check the spelling. When Outlook or Wordfinishes checking the spelling and grammar, it displays information about the reading level of the document.

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WORD
Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
ClickProofing.
Make sure Check grammar with spelling is selected.
Under When correcting grammar in Word, select the Show readability statistics check box.
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Understand readability scoresEach readability test bases its rating on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence. The following sections explain how each test scores your file's readability.

FLESCHREADING EASE TEST
This test rates text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. For most standard files, you want the score to be between 60 and 70.

Theformula for the Flesch Reading Ease score is:

206.835 – (1.015 x ASL) – (84.6 x ASW)
where:

ASL = average sentence length (the number of words divided by the number of sentences)

ASW =...