There are some great features to Microsoft Word that support differentiation strategies. So far, tips at left include:

• Computer-generated summaries
  - Identifies essential content for students to pre-read
• Highlight text
  - Key words, themes, characterizations, main ideas
• Change how the text looks on the screen
  - Allows user preference for font: type, size, and color

• Adjust the grammar checker
  - Allows teacher to reduce frustration for students or target specific errors

• Check the readability of selected text
  - Allows teacher to choose appropriate material and encourages students to increase complexity of their own writing.

• Links highlighted words to dictionary definitions and a thesaurus.
  

• Creation of templates for writing or note-taking

• Creation of text boxes and shapes, for quick graphic organizers

• Insertion of math equations. See Equation Editor.
  

• Auto-completion and auto-correction
  

• Text to speech & speech to text (Word 2002/Office XP)