Check Reading Level with Microsoft Word

With your document open, go to the Menu bar and click on Tools, then click Options.  Click on the Spelling & Grammar Tab. At the bottom of the Grammar selection, check "Show readability statistics."  Click OK. 

Go back to the Menu bar and click on Tools. From the drop-down list, click Spelling and Grammar.  This will start spell check - when spell check has been completed a window should appear that provides information about readability level according to the Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score.

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Last updated June 23, 2011 ~ Mrs. K. Bradley
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