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How to Summarize Articles Using Microsoft Word 2007

By Hammad Saleem

Last Updated on October 27, 2021

A cool feature in Microsoft Word 2007 is it lets you Automatically summarize articles and find key points of the document so you don’t have to read the entire thing.

A cool feature in Microsoft Word is it lets you Automatically summarize articles and find critical points of the document, so you don’t have to read the entire thing. This saves you time and gets you to the main points in a lengthy document.

Note: Here, I’m using Word 2007, but the feature was discontinued in 2010.

Summarize a Microsoft Word 2007 Document

Open the document you want to summarize and click on the Office button.

Then click Word Options.

Word Options comes up. Click on Customize from the sidebar.

Open the “Choose Commands From” dropdown menu and select the “All Commands” option.

Scroll down from the list of commands and find AutoSummary Tools, click on Add and click Ok.

Click on the AutoSummarize Tools button from the Quick Access toolbar and click on AutoSummarize.

The AutoSummarize dialog box opens and shows you different options. You can select the type of summary you want and the length of the summary too.

The Highlight Key Points feature picks commonly used words and phrases from the document and highlights them.

Insert Executive Summary option will put the abstract of the document on top.

Create a new document option will use the summary above and paste it into a new document. Lastly, hiding the everything option will paste the summary of the document and will remove any extra material.