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Write with confidence across documents, email, and the web. With features that help strengthen your spelling, grammar, and style, Microsoft Editor is your intelligent writing assistant.
Write clearly and concisely wherever you write most
Check your spelling and grammar and polish your writing style across social media, email, and documents. Use Editor in Word, Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, and Google docs, among many other applications.
Do more with Editor
Create your own dictionary so Editor won’t mark certain words as misspelled.
Check your document for content that’s similar to text online and cite the original source.
Identify phrases that would benefit from simpler wording, switch to active voice instead of passive voice, and avoid jargon.
Highlight issues like sentence fragments, missing words and punctuation, capitalization, and commonly confused words with the online grammar checker.
Edit, grammar, and spelling resources
Read grammar tips and tricks
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Read spelling tips and tricks
Improve your writing
Write like a pro with Editor and Microsoft 365
- Enjoy intelligent writing assistance and advanced editing suggestions from Editor.2
- Create documents that inspire with help from the smart assistance features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.2
- Save up to 500,000 photos* and files with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage (*assumes 2 MB file size).2
- Enjoy an ad-free email and calendar experience with Outlook.2
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Microsoft Editor for free
Originally starting from Free now starting from Free
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1 person
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Editor basic, spelling and grammar
Microsoft 365 Personal
Originally starting from $6.99 now starting from $6.99
$6.99 $6.99
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Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled in Microsoft account. See terms.
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1 person
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Editor basic, spelling and grammar
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Clarity
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Conciseness
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Formal language
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Vocabulary
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Punctuation conventions
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Copilot Pro available as an add-on.*
Microsoft 365 Family
Originally starting from $9.99 now starting from $9.99
$9.99 $9.99
user/month
Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled in Microsoft account. See terms.
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2-6 people
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Editor basic, spelling and grammar
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Advanced grammar
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Clarity
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Conciseness
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Formal language
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Vocabulary
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Punctuation conventions
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Copilot Pro available as an add-on.*
Microsoft Editor for free
Originally starting from Free now starting from Free
Free Free
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1 person
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Editor basic spelling and grammar
Microsoft 365 Apps for business
Originally starting from $8.25 now starting from $8.25
$8.25 $8.25
user/month
(Annual subscription – auto renews)1
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Available for up to 300 employes
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Desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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1 TB of cloud storage per user
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Anytime phone and web support
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Microsoft 365 Copilot available as an add-on.**
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
Originally starting from $12.50 now starting from $12.50
$12.50 $12.50
user/month
(Annual subscription – auto renews)1
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Everything in Microsoft 365 Apps for business, plus:
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Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
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Custom business email (you@yourbusiness.com)
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Chat, call, and video conference with Microsoft Teams
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10+ additional apps for your business needs (Bookings, Planner, Microsoft Forms, and others)
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Automatic spam and malware filtering
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Webinars with attendee registration and reporting
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New: Collaborative workspaces to co-create using Microsoft Loop
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New: Video editing and design tools with Clipchamp
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Microsoft 365 Copilot available as an add-on.**
Frequently asked questions
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Currently, Editor is available on desktop devices including macOS and Windows. It is not available on mobile.
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Editor is currently supported in a variety of user-friendly locations including Google docs, Gmail, Outlook, Word for the web, the Word desktop app, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Outlook, among other places.
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The free browser extension can be downloaded here for Edge and here for Chrome. It's free to use for spelling and grammar checking but you can get premium features by subscribing to Microsoft 365.
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If you subscribe to Microsoft 365, you receive premium features for Microsoft Editor wherever you use it, including the downloadable browser extension and Microsoft Word, among other places.
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Editor supports basic guidance in more than 20 languages and spelling suggestions in more than 80. View the full list here.
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No, but you can subscribe to Microsoft 365 to get the premium version of Editor in combination with many other apps such as premium versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Word
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Excel
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PowerPoint
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Outlook
Connect, organize, and get things done with free personal email and calendar.
OneNote
One cross-functional notebook for all your notetaking needs.
OneDrive
Easily store, access, and discover your individual and shared work files in Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, from all your devices. Your offline edits will automatically sync next time you connect.
Teams
One app for all your chats, meetups, files, and tasks.
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- [2] A Microsoft 365 subscription is required.
- [*] Copilot Pro benefits are currently available on web, Windows, and macOS and iPadOS. A Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription is required to access Copilot in select apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. Excel features are currently in preview in English only. Microsoft 365 Personal or Family and Copilot Pro are not available in the same transaction and must be purchased in two separate transactions.
- [**] Microsoft 365 Copilot may not be available for all markets and languages. To purchase, customers must have a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan for enterprise or business.
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