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Go to View > Learning Tools, and select your options:
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Column Width changes line length to improve focus and comprehension.
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Page Color can make text easy to scan with less eye strain.
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Line Focus removes distractions so that you can move through a document line by line. Adjust the focus to put one, three, or five lines in view at a time.
Note: The Line Focus option is available only to Office Insiders for now.
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Text Spacing increases the spacing between words, characters, and lines.
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Syllables shows breaks between syllables, to improve word recognition and pronunciation.
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Read Aloud lets you hear your document as each word is highlighted.
Note: Use the playback controls to start and stop the narration, to change the speed of the reading, and to switch between reading voices.
Keyboard shortcuts for Read Aloud
Start or exit Read Aloud: Ctrl+Alt+Space
Pause or play Read Alout: Ctrl+Space
Speed up reading speed: Alt+Right
Slow down reading speed: Alt+Left
Read the previous paragraph: Ctrl+Right
Read the next paragraph: Ctrl+Left
Language support
Text spacing is available for all languages except those written with complex or connected scripts. For example, Arabic isn't supported.
Syllabification is available for Basque, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh languages. Text must be set correctly. For more details, see set language preferences. If the text is set to an unsupported language, it won’t be syllabified, even if the text should be supported. Example: If English text is copied into a Chinese document, the English text must be selected and set to English; otherwise, the text won’t be syllabified.
Read Aloud doesn't support RTL languages. Read Aloud reads text in the default speech language of your operating system. For information about how to add additional text-to-speech voices, see How to download Text-to-Speech languages for Windows 10.
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