Microsoft Word update delivers a useful feature already available with rival service Google Docs.
Microsoft is working on a new feature for Word that should help users compose documents more quickly and with greater ease. As per an entry in the company’s product roadmap, Word will soon receive a text predictions feature, designed to anticipate what the user intends to write next and save them the effort of typing it out in full. Once the update has been deployed, Word will begin to generate text predictions in real-time as the user types. These predictions will be greyed out until either typed over, approved using the TAB key or rejected using ESC. According to Microsoft, the service will improve over time as it picks up on each user’s writing style and linguistic preferences, and should help minimize errors of spelling and grammar.
