Hello, I was just writing a book review & thinking of my pet peeve regarding repetition of words, when I realized that this could be a useful tool in word processing programs.
I know you can use the find feature to look for similar words to the search term, but it would be great to have a tool that could identify duplicate words (and their related forms) without entering a search term (while excluding articles and pronouns, etc., of course--as well as a field to enter other words to be excluded from the search, e.g. names). This would be much more useful for finding similar words, since people usually aren't aware of when they repeat them. It would be good to have a tool like this, so if I used the same adjective more than once, or if I used two forms of the same word (e.g. amazing, and amazingly), I could consider changing one to a synonym. It'd probably be most useful for the result to be a list of words that you could click on to highlight and find in the document, so you could deal with one set at a time if there were duplicates of several words. It would also be nice if you could choose to ignore words that come up in the result and remove them from the list. Thank you for your consideration! -Miriam
