8 Keywords: Autosummarise, Auto-summarise, AutoSummaize, Microsoft Word, Dyslexia, Specific Learning Differences, Academic Writing, Writing Essays

"When I am writing one [an essay] and if I’m over the word limit, you go and do auto-summarise and it picks out what the key points are - and you think well actually that sentence that isn’t highlighted could really be got rid of, it’s not necessary to have it there.  So, then you can cut the word count down.  Or, if you’re doing an abstract or an executive summary, you can pick that there.  You have the ability to pick between highlighting none of the document or highlghting the whole of the document.  So you can say ‘I only want 20% of the document as key points’ and it will bring out as much as you need."

"I have the new Office 2007, and on that you have to go in and turn on some of the features.  On the old one, so in Office 2003 it used to have an auto-summarise section which you could click on and it would highlight a percentage of the document that it thought were key points for you.  It was quite useful writing the summaries, but in the new Office you have to go and turn it on so that features are enabled.

Auto-summarise is not on the ribbon bar.  You have to go and add it onto it.  Lots of people don’t know that there’s an auto-summarise thing there because it can write an executive summary for you.  Obviously, I don’t know how it does it, but it manages to pick out what it thinks are key sentences, and generally they are quite good.  It just puts them up to the top as an abstract – or highlights them."