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Overview of GPT for Word

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GPT for Word is a Microsoft Word add-in that turns generative AIs into your personal writing assistants available directly in the Word user interface. Think of it as ChatGPT inside Word. Use your favorite AI to edit, rewrite, correct, review, translate, summarize, draft, write, and more.

GPT for Word

Use cases​

Here are a few common use cases that you can easily handle with GPT for Word:

  • Rewrite or rephrase content in a different style, tone, or voice.

  • Check and correct the grammar and spelling in your document.

  • Generate a document template, or a document draft or outline that you can then flesh out.

  • Translate content to multiple target languages while observing appropriate localization conventions.

  • Summarize a document into a few bullet points.

  • Explain individual words, phrases, and paragraphs in your document.

  • Review your document for logical structure, clarity and consistency of content, and other aspects that you want to validate.

Features​

  • Prompt an AI as you would in ChatGPT or another AI chatbot.

  • Use a highlighted selection or the whole document as context for your prompts.

  • Preserve common formatting elements such as headings, lists, tables, and basic text styles when inserting generated content.

  • Preview and refine content in a chat interface before inserting the content into your document.

  • Enable Word's Track changes mode to keep track of your AI edits.

The following video shows you how to translate selected text and replace the selection with the translation while preserving formatting.

Benefits​

  • Integrate AI into your content workflow. Prompt your favorite AI directly from inside your documents. No more copy-pasting between Word and AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

  • Choose your preferred AI model. Use models from OpenAI and Anthropic. You can even connect to local models with Ollama.

  • Bring your own API key to get more features at reduced cost. You do not need your own key to use GPT for Word, but using your own key gives you access to more models, affords you more control and privacy, and you pay a reduced service fee.

What's next​

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