This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing the writing assistance blue dot hint on the blinking cursor in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Editor is built into Microsoft Edge to help you write with confidence wherever you type online. It offers AI-powered writing assistance—like spelling, grammar, and synonym suggestions—along with text prediction to help you finish sentences faster and stay in your flow. Together, these tools help you write more clearly and efficiently across the web.
When you have Use writing assistance turned on in Edge, it will show writing hints by default. These hints is a blue dot occasionally showing on the blinking cursor in a text (reply) box in Edge to help you discover writing assistance. If you hover on the blue dot, you will see a writing assistance edit (pencil) button to click/tap on to start writing assistance.
You can turn off show writing hints to no longer see the blue dot on the blinking cursor without having to turn off Use writing assistance. When show writing hints is turned off, you would just need to hover on the blinking cursor to see the writing assistance edit (pencil) button to click/tap on to start writing assistance.
If you turn off Use writing assistance, it will also disable show writing hints.
EXAMPLE: Writing assistance blue dot hint on blinking cursor
Here's How:
1 Open Microsoft Edge.
2 Click/tap on the Setting and more (Alt+F) 3 dots button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Languages in the left pane. (see screenshot below step 4)
If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.
4 Under the Writing assistance section, turn on (default) or off Show writing hints for what you want.
Show writing hints will be grayed out if Use writing assistance is tuned off.
5 You can now close the Settings tab if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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