How to easily use synonyms to improve your texts from Word and Google Docs

A synonym is simply a word that means the same as the word chosen in the first place. It comes from the Greek words “syn” and “onym”, which means “together” and “name”, respectively. If you have doubts about these topics, take a look at this post.

When you speak or write, one of the best ways to expand your vocabulary and avoid repeating the same words is to use a thesaurus. If you don’t have it handy, we have good news: Microsoft Word and Google Docs have one built in.

Why is it important to use synonyms when speaking or writing? This is important because synonyms can help you improve the quality of your writing by giving your readers a clear and unique view of your ideas. Here are the benefits of using synonyms:

• Make text more precise.
• Help avoid boring texts.
• Improve communication between sender and receiver.
• Help create better images in the reader’s mind.
• Help avoid boring and repetitive texts.

With all this in mind, and knowing full well that using synonyms is a good idea, we’ll show you how to find the synonym tool in both Microsoft Word and Google Docs.

Let’s go there.

Find synonyms in Microsoft Word

• Opening Microsoft Word
• We write the word
• We highlight this and move on to the Browse option.
• There we give a variant of synonyms.
• All available synonyms will appear on the right side, select the one that suits us best.

Search for synonyms in Google Docs

• Opening Google Docs
• We write the word
• We underline it and go to the “Tools” option.
• There we give the Dictionary option.
• On the right side, all available synonyms and the definition of the words we have chosen will appear.

Once these two tutorials are done, we will see how to search for synonyms in both Google Docs and Microsoft Word, two of the most used tools in the world for daily writing.