Flesch Reading Ease

 

Thanks to an internal communiqué, I recently came across a Readability test of word documents. Surely made for some interesting reading.

To Enable it, you need to enable readability statistics from the options.

 

Once done, on completing a spell check you will see the following:

 

 

The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. There are several sources on the internet which explain how to interpret the score.

Further reading can be found here.

https://office.microsoft.com/en-in/word-help/test-your-document-s-readability-HP010148506.aspx#BM2