Why Use Grammarly for Your Google Docs Grammar Check
Grammarly is one of the best-known tools for checking grammar and more. If you write in Google Docs often, it’s a tool to help you improve your writing and make creating professional documents even easier. Grammarly scans your document as you write to help you find and correct grammar mistakes in the words you put on the page. If you are writing for a specific purpose, such as work, or maybe creating a series of books which use a specific style, you can even set Grammarly up to work with custom styles. For example, if your company style is to avoid the Oxford comma (a comma after all items in a list except the last one), you can create a custom style item to help you stay on track. However, you’ll need to have the Business version of Grammarly to use this feature. You can add specific words to your personal dictionary, even with a free account. To do so, you need to log into your account on the Grammarly website and choose Customize. There you’ll see an option to add a word to your Personal Dictionary or you can adjust your Language Preference.
How to Install and Use Grammarly for Google Docs
The first thing to know when preparing to use Grammarly for Google Docs is you can only use it on the Chrome browser. That’s because Grammarly for Google Docs is actually a Chrome extension which has been architected to work with Google Docs.
How to User Grammarly in Google Docs
Once you’ve installed the extension, then you can start using Grammarly for Google Docs.
Using the Grammarly Sidebar
When you’re working in long documents that have many types of Grammarly flags, the easiest way to work through them is to use the Grammarly sidebar. You’ll also notice the dialog box this option appears in points to a number in a red circle. This is the indicator of how many grammar errors Grammarly thinks you have.
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To view the sidebar, click the Grammarly icon in the bottom right corner of the document (either green if there are no errors or red if there are errors). The sidebar will open on the right side of the page. Here you can scroll through the items Grammarly has flagged, or click each of the sidebars to view a specific type of error, including Correctness, Clarity, Engagement, or Delivery.
Setting Goals With Grammarly for Your Content
One additional feature that’s nice to have in Grammarly for Google Docs is the ability to set goals for the content that you create. To access this feature, open the Grammarly sidebar and then click the target icon. This opens a Set goals dialog box where you can adjust options for Audience, Formality, Domain, and Tone.
