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Writing style settings

Last modified: 04 March 2025

The Writing style page lets you customize grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style checks specific to a context such as public or informal.

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Grazie comes with the Default writing style, suitable for writing assistance in regular daily communication. With the AI Pro subscription, you get the additional styles that also can be configured. To learn more about the available writing styles, refer to Use writing styles.

Writing style settings

Grazie provides writing style rules for English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. You can select the language in the upper right corner of the page.

The writing style settings are divided into the following groups:

Group

Description

General

Adjust general writing style settings. You can select your preferred language variant, toggle on or off other checks, and adjust additional configuration options for some of them.

Punctuation

Configure punctuation rules that Grazie uses to check your texts. You can toggle each punctuation rule on or off and adjust additional configuration options for some of them. For example, you can specify when to use serial (Oxford) commas and define how hyphens and dashes are handled.

Typography

Configure typography rules that Grazie uses to check your texts. You can toggle each rule on or off and adjust additional configuration options for some of them. For example, you can specify how large numbers and names with initials are formatted.

Readability

Manage readability checks performed on your texts. For example, you can set Grazie to highlight all passive voice constructions, tautologies, redundant prepositions, and other problems that affect the readability of the text.

Formality

Manage formality checks performed on your texts. For example, you can set Grazie to highlight shortened word forms, incorrect forms of pronouns, and other problems that affect the formality of the text.

Inclusivity

Specify inclusivity checks performed on your texts. For example, you can adjust how gender-specific nouns are used and enable discriminatory and violent language checks.

To customize writing style settings:

  1. Click the Grazie icon in the browser toolbar , then click the Settings icon Settings icon.

  2. From the main menu, select Writing style.

  3. Select the language for which you want to customize the writing style settings in the upper right corner of the page.

    Select language

  4. Turn the available checks on or off by toggling the corresponding switches.

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    Some checks contain additional configuration options that are used to define their behavior.

You can turn on or off the entire group of checks. Move the pointer to the group title and click the Turn on or Turn off button.

Turn on or off entire group of checks

You can reset the modified settings to their default state. Grazie lets you restore a single setting, a group of settings, or all writing style settings at once.

To restore a single setting:

  • Click the Reset to default link next to the setting name.

    Restore a single setting

To restore a group of settings:

  1. Move the pointer to the group title.

  2. Click the Reset to default button.

    Restore a group of settings

To restore all writing style settings:

  • Click the Reset to default button next to the language selection dropdown in the upper right corner of the page.

    Restore an entire writing style

    Language variants

    If you write in English or German, you can select your preferred language variant to ensure Grazie uses the correct rules and does not highlight valid words, phrases, and sentences.

    To select a language variant:

    1. Click the Grazie icon in the browser toolbar , then click the Settings icon Settings icon.

    2. From the main menu, select Writing style.

    3. Select the English or German language in the upper right corner of the page.

      Select language

    4. From the sidebar, open General and select the preferred language variant from the list.

      Select the language variant

    Grazie offers suggestions according to the selected language variant.

    Check the word for British English spelling