Microsoft Outlook, the popular email and calendar application, has been receiving a lot of attention lately for its grammarly-style editor. This new feature is available in both the free and paid versions of the application. The editor is designed to help you improve your writing style and make your messages more clear. It features a variety of tools that you can use to improve your grammar, including a sentence level checker, a word choice checker, and an error checking tool. If you’re looking for an easy way to improve your writing style, then Microsoft Outlook is definitely worth checking out.
Microsoft Editor is an AI-powered writing assistant and grammar checker from Microsoft, similar to Grammarly and other services. It’s already integrated in some Microsoft apps, like Word, but now it’s rolling out to all Outlook applications.
Microsoft Editor was already available on the web versions of Word and Outlook (with a Microsoft 365 subscription), as well as Word for Windows. There’s also a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that adds Editor to text boxes in web pages, much like Grammarly’s extensions. Now it’s expanding to Outlook on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
No matter which Outlook app you use, Microsoft Editor will offer spelling, grammar, and writing style suggestions in supported languages — once it rolls out, anyway. If you prefer your device’s own grammar tools, you can turn off Microsoft Editor in the app settings. It’s still not available in Outlook.com on mobile browsers, or the Mail app on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Microsoft says spell checking and basic grammar checking will work with free Outlook.com accounts, but more advanced features will require an active Microsoft 365 subscription. The advanced features are also enabled for education, business, and enterprise accounts, so if you use Outlook through a school or company email, they should be available there too (unless the administrator turns it off).
Microsoft is also working on a completely new Outlook app for Windows, based on the web app, which doesn’t seem to have Microsoft Editor integration yet. However, that app is still in preview and is missing many more important features (like offline support), so that’s not too surprising. Microsoft also says more Editor features are coming to Outlook, but the company didn’t provide a timeline.
Source: Microsoft
