TextLab now available for Word available. Easily check your texts on intelligibility. Ulm, September 25, 2011 write simple, customer-friendly and understandable texts with the new version of the Plug-In TextLab for Microsoft Word this is now also possible for Microsoft 2010 user button. In addition to the many familiar features, the new software has exciting enhancements: so companies with the new terminology module from now their corporate language can integrate into TextLab. The result: Even extensive style guides are consistently applied by various editors and consistently implemented company standards or formulations.
Companies often underestimate the cost of unintelligible text. Expedia is full of insight into the issues. Just who is understood, can sell its product”, explains Dr. Anikar Haseloff, Managing Director of H & H communication lab GmbH. With the new Word Plug-In TextLab, companies can now analyze your texts. And without having to provide records and documents out of the House.” In only the Plug-In download is installed and can be used directly in Microsoft Word just a few steps. Through a simple and intuitive control authors can scientifically examine texts and objectively evaluate with just a few clicks. In addition to the review of the text for various readability formulas, many practical assistance are offered: where are present in the text long nested chain sets? Overly difficult debt and terms of use? Anglicisms are used and there are German synonyms? Where can be dispensed with passive sentences? Unnecessary Word compounds occur in the text? Where will violate the own companies? Oliver Haug, second Managing Director of H & H communication lab GmbH, stressed: the strength of the system is that the measurement criteria and target values can be individually determined for different target groups and text types.
For Comprehensibility is not always equal understanding. A medical leaflet has different requirements and is to write a review as a text differently for an online travel portal. ” The TextLab Word Plug-In can be adapted to individual requirements also by customers. It is to create, for example, possible own benchmarks or rules. The software is already at various companies in the field. In addition to the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Wurttemberg, for example, also a large insurance concern, several financial institutions, the city use Wiesbaden or the media Club Austria software to control their language. The applications are mainly the customer, Internet – and employee communication of a company where the software also is used, for example, complex contract documents to simplify or improve system letters.