MS Word editor feature: A free solution to scholars for similarity checking

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If you are a research scholar and doing your research work in a well-recognized university then you undeniably confront with the term plagiarism or similarity. The word that every scholar on the spot face in his mind whenever he thought of witting any thesis work. Therefore, whenever you start writing your work then this word plagiarism comes round and round in your mind. But if your work is genuine, authentic, and never done or tried before by any scholar then you do not have to worry about plagiarism.

The term plagiarism not only the hot topic for research scholar but also to the content writer, article writer, who want to earn benefit by selling their written work. That is the reason the well-known journals before taking your work make sure the authenticity of your work in which plagiarism is also stand still.

So, when you type your research work next thing you want, is to publish your work in a well-recognized journal, but they also follow such strict laws and policies that your work somehow neglected to be published in their journal by showing some issues in your work. Somehow, 19-20% of matching of work is allowed if we talk about here in Pakistan. HEC strive to implement laws about plagiarism which are in implementing stage.

Put this in other way, if your work is authentic, fair, and based on right facts that make some sense and results obtained gives logical acceptance then sometime the issue of plagiarism neglected with few exemptions as mentioned earlier depending upon your work. which not seen till now.

This does not mean that work you write always be the copy paste content but if you give credit to the writer and gives reference of their work in your work then this is accepted at any level. Because you use their work and implement in different situations. Therefore, referencing overcome the issue of plagiarism.

Plat form for plagiarism/similarity checking

• Grammarly Business.

• Unicheck.

• PlagScan.

• PlagiarismCheck.org.

• ProWritingAid.

• Plagiarism Checker X.

• Noplag.

• URKUND

Other than HEC, if you want to get such kind of services from other platforms then you might have to buy membership which cost you much more.

There are well known platforms for checking plagiarism which allowed user to check their written content for plagiarism. These platforms allow users to check the content with trial period. For example, Turnitin which is popular in offering plagiarism checking services. In Pakistan, HEC got their services and allowed free access to scholars for similarity checking for their content.

Similarity checking feature in MS Word

Microsoft is constantly introducing new applications and features to its users over time. The company's main goal is to provide its customers with simple and authentic features that meet the needs of the customers promptly. That is why the company keeps introducing unique features with latest updates over time. These include office updates in recent years. Today's update to this topic is notable for high end computer users, but also for users with low processor, so that they too can receive help from this new update and upgrade their system to include these updated features.

Additionally, if you spend a lot of time on writing, you will have to keep grammar in mind while writing, as it considered essential for writing any language. So, Microsoft has solved this problem by introducing a new feature that you will find in MS Word. Earlier, when you used to write in MS Word, it used to instruct you to correct only the mistakes of words, but some grammatical rules were not included in the MS Word of that time.

Nowadays these principles are introduced in MS Word through a feature called Editor. In addition, there are number of software providers on the Internet that allow users to use variety of features for a specific payment, while in MS Word this feature is free.

Today's blog is about introducing you to this new feature on how it can further improve your writing process so that your written work will look professional, and which will surely get the attention of the readers.

If you are worried that you cannot avail the Turnitin services or from other platforms and obviously you use MS word for drafting your thesis work. Then MS Office resolves this issue for you by introducing editor feature in MS Word 365. This editor feature works same as Grammarly and other artificial intelligence platform that offers Grammarly like services, which includes spelling, grammar, clarity, conciseness, punctuation conventions, vocabulary. Along with that it offers you the service that is the topic of discussion in this blog, that is, Similarity checking feature. In addition to these exciting features, it also gives you document insight feature, which gives you the readability statistics of your document.

This editor feature present in the home tab of MS word after opening new or blank document. Before writing your content its better that you open editor so that you get updated about your document along when you continue writing.

Editor can be open by pressing F7 key or present on the right side of the screen of the home tab. As shown in figure below.

After opening editor, you will see the different sections in it, editor score, similarity, and insights. As shown below in figure.

When you start writing the editor score gives you further sections that tells the overall score card of your document. As you keep writing this section starts telling you the detail score along with. As shown.

The most important and attention getting section is that tells your way of your writing like formal writing, professional and casual. This section tells the score of your document that weather it has high score in formal writing or in professional or casual writing and suggest you further changes in spelling, grammar, clarity, conciseness, punctuation conventions, vocabulary. As the number of issues found in corrections and refinements the overall score of the document effected as well.

Now moving towards over main topic of interest, we will check the similarity report generated by MS Word’s editor.

So, first, select your desired paragraph or without selecting open editor and goes to similarity section and click on it to see the similarity results. Within spam of few seconds this section will gives the similarity report of your written work. If your work is unique, new and elegant then report surely gives you the 0% of similarity report which quiet fascinate you.

Other than that, if your work found similar with online material then the results would be different.

Hence, in this way you can check your document similarity report freely online through MS Word despite spending cost to avail such online service provider.