MS Word – text to speech…

A productivity/editing tip – did you know that recent versions of MS Word have the ability to read your text back to you? I am finding that an excellent way to catch missing words, repeated words, gender mistakes as I edit etc.

It also has the huge benefit of helping to catch plain boring bits of text – if you are bored listening to a section, why would someone else want to read it?

If you want to try it out, here’s a link for how to set that up:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-the-Speak-text-to-speech-feature-to-read-text-aloud-459e7704-a76d-4fe2-ab48-189d6b83333c