Immersive Reader helps to improve reading skills for people of all ages and abilities. Immersive Reader shows text in a window where it can be read aloud or formatted in ways that enhance reading, such as words divided into syllables, color coded and tagged for parts of speech, or extra spacing between words and lines.

Using Immersive Reader

Do any of the following:

  • Select a portion of text, one or more objects on a slide that contain text, or one or more slides, and on the View tab, select  Immersive reader button Immersive Reader.Select Immersive Reader in the View menu

  • Right-click a slide, one or more slide thumbnails, an object that contains text, or a portion of text, and select Immersive reader button Open in Immersive Reader from the context menu.Open in Immersive reader screenshot. The text opens in Immersive Reader:

Immersive reader text screenshot.

To have the text read aloud, in Immersive Reader, select the Play button.

Immersive reader play button screenshot.

Changing Immersive Reader preferences

When in Immersive Reader, you can change the way you interact with the text by using the following options in the upper right corner:

Immersive reader text preferences button icon. Text Preferences    let you change the text font and size, increase word spacing, apply themes, and show source formatting.

Immersive reader grammar options button icon. Grammar Options    let you divide the words into syllables and color code and tag parts of speech.

Immersive reader reading preferences button icon. Reading Preferences    let you focus on one to three lines, access an online picture dictionary, or translate the text into several languages with the ability to toggle easily between the original and translated versions.

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