Reading speed is 10% faster and reading errors are reduced by 50%. Immersive reader is introduced in the web version of Microsoft Excel.

CTOnews.com, May 20 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- Microsoft is pushing Office applications to integrate immersive reader (Immersive Reader) capabilities to improve the readability of content in OneNote documents, and announced this week that it will be integrating into a web-based version of Excel.

Microsoft integrated it into web-based Outlook and OneNote applications in 2017; into web-based PowerPoint in 2021, and now it's Excel's turn.

In an official support blog post, Microsoft said that after users turned on the immersion reader, by optimizing the layout, the reading speed of people with dyslexia was increased by 10%, and reading errors were reduced by 50%.

CTOnews.com hereby attaches the main features of Excel users after enabling the immersion reader function:

Increase character spacing and line spacing

Break down words into syllables

Change the background color of the view

Highlight some parts of speech

Use Picture Dictionary to associate pictures and words

Read aloud

Instant translation of content