You know what it’s like: you’ve taken 400 pages to write your novel and it’s bad enough that you had to summarise that into a 10-page synopsis. But now your agent wants a single page synopsis from you! Believe it or not, good old Word can help you with this dreadful task. Automatically summarising a document MS Word’s AutoSummarise tool picks out the keywords, or most frequently used words, in your text and ranks sentences according to how many of the keywords they contain. Word then uses the higher ranked sentences to create a summary. Unfortunately this means that a summary of fiction will be mainly “he said”, “he said” and the main character’s name repeated several times, but AutoSummarise is ideal for shortening non-fiction, articles, or a synopsis. Click on Tools , AutoSummarise … You will note that there are four options for the summary: 1. Highlight key points 2. Executive summary or abstract 3. Summary in a new document 4. Summary only in original document Of ...