{"id":299,"date":"2017-09-21T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-09-21T23:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:08:50","slug":"using-words-built-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/2017\/09\/21\/using-words-built-thesaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Word&#8217;s built-in Thesaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you work away in Word, do you find yourself sometimes mentally searching for just the right word?\u00a0\u00a0 None of the words you can think of really capture the essence of what you want to say but you feel there is a word that will.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe you feel you are overusing a word and want an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>When this happens:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right-click on the word you\u2019d like to change<\/li>\n<li>Point to Synonyms<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alandaletraining.com\/software-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Synonyms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Select one of the synonyms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Word replaces the word in your document with your selection. \u00a0You can use this feature in Outlook as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you work away in Word, do you find yourself sometimes mentally searching for just the right word?\u00a0\u00a0 None of the words you can think of really capture the essence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-word"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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