Word’s Read Aloud feature reads your document to you. The following excerpts from Affinity Consulting Group’s “ Microsoft Word for Legal Professionals” point to four - including the Microsoft Word Read Aloud feature - that can boost your efficiency and drafting accuracy. Since all that onscreen reading can exhaust your body and your brain, it’s worth checking out a few Office 365 features that make reading easier. But, whether you realize it or not, you probably spend more time reading documents in Microsoft Word than actually drafting them - especially if you have gone paperless.