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How to Use the Thesaurus in Word for Office 365

posted on March 27, 2019

When you are typing a lot about the same subject, it’s natural to use the same words. But if those words are used over and over, it can make the content boring or difficult to read.

One way that you can fix this is to replace those overused words with some new ones. This is the perfect situation for a thesaurus. Luckily Microsoft Word has a thesaurus built into the application that you can use to discover synonyms for a word in your document.

How to Find a Synonym With the Microsoft Word Thesaurus

The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Word for Office 365, but will also work in other versions of Word as well.

Step 1: Open your document in Microsoft Word.

Step 2: Select the word for which you wish to find a synonym.

choose a word in your document

Step 3: Click the Review tab at the top of the window.

select the review tab

Step 4: Click the Thesaurus button in the Proofing section of the ribbon.

click the thesaurus button

Step 5: Hover over the word that you want to use in the column at the right side of the window, then click the arrow to the right of it.

choose the desired synonym in the right column

Step 6: Choose the Insert option.

how to use the thesaurus in microsoft word for office 365

The selected word in the document should now be replaced with the one that you just selected.

Is there formatting in your document that you are having trouble removing? Find out how to clear formatting from a selection in Word so that you don’t need to remove each individual formatting option that’s been applied to it.

Matthew Burleigh
Matthew Burleigh

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