If you or your bosses think contractions are fine, just leave Word alone and it’ll accept them Grammar gets a Brown Squiggly This option makes life easy for those folks. More formal documents and standards might disapprove of contractions so Word has an option to check for them.Ĭertain workplaces or very formal style guides consider contractions to be disallowed or at least discouraged. Why does Microsoft Word have a Contractions choice? You’ll see a warning ‘Formal Language’ and ‘Consider avoiding contractions’. Formal Language, Consider avoiding contractions
These contractions are normal and accepted by Word 2016 Windows/Mac in it’s standard settings but you can change that. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.ĭeep inside Word 2016’s grammar checks are some detailed settings like one to look for contractions such as: I’m, you’re, shouldn’t, couldn’t and haven’t.
