Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

Anonymous
2015-09-25T02:30:46+00:00

What happened to being able to check style in Word 2016 when proofing (number of spaces after a sentence, contractions, hyphenated words, etc.)??

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Anonymous
2017-03-15T13:09:13+00:00

Those Style Options in Editor which were also part of earlier Office versions (e.g. Passive Voice) are now available for Office 2016 Click-to-Run perpetual users in Office build 16.0.7870.2020 and newer builds. New Grammar and Style options and other ongoing enhancements to the experience, will continue to be exclusively offered through an Office 365 subscription. 

The "Grammar & More" Writing Style is not available in the drop down yet. To enable the Style Options in Word, go to File -> Options -> Proofing and click on the "Settings…" button next to the Writing Style drop down "Grammar". The Grammar Settings window will pop up where you can customize the checks. You will first see the available Grammar Options and when you scroll down, you will see the Style Options starting with Options for "Clarity & Conciseness".

Just check the checkbox next to the Options you'd like to enable.

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Anonymous
2016-10-05T10:36:32+00:00

Hi

I can finally announce that the update is now available to all Office for Windows subscription users.

Apologies for the delay. The monthly updates always contain several new features or improvements and delays can unfortunately occur for many different reasons.

The English Style options are now available to all Windows Word and Outlook subscription users with Office build 16.0.7369.2024 or newer.

Office for Mac subscription Insiders Fast users are scheduled to receive the update with build 15.28.0.161004 or newer.

We appreciate your feedback. Please let us know if you see false flags (= incorrect flags/unexpected flags), missed flags or incorrect suggestions.

The Writing Style “Grammar & more” is now on by default. All Grammar Options and the two new Options “Wordiness” and “Nominalizations” are enabled. If you like to enable more Style Options, follow these steps:

In Word 2016:

  1. Go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Proofing"
  2. If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
  3. Click on “Settings”

  1. Only two Options ("Wordiness, Nominalizations") are enabled by default. You can enable more Options by ticking the checkbox next to them:

 

To enable the feature in Outlook, please do the following:

In Outlook 2016:

  1. From a popped-out mail window, go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Mail". (Don't do this from the main Outlook window.)
  2. Click on "Spelling and Autocorrect…" in the section "Compose messages". You'll be taken to the "Proofing" tab of the "Editor Options" dialog.
  3. If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
  4. Check the checkbox next to "Mark grammar errors as you type" in the "When correcting spelling in Outlook" section.

  1. To enable more Style Options, please follow steps 3.) and 4.) described for Word above.

We've also included many bug fixes in this update.

We're working on improving the Grammar Checker further and will release more Options in the coming months.

Thanks, Nicole

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-25T19:58:46+00:00

    You aren't stuck with it and they are aware that they have reduced Word 2016 to a simple word processor with spell check. I'm not sure what the heck they were thinking but they are processing refunds like crazy and this is on Mac and Windows versions. I spent three hours on the phone and online in chat with them so they could verify that over 50 editing options have been removed from Word 2016 that are present as far back as 2007. Someone needs to tell the public BEFORE they buy this version.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-25T12:57:53+00:00

    Thanks, Jay.  LOL, I won't shoot ya, but I'd like to shoot someone!!  Yep, had read that.  I have hundreds of clients who like the old-fashioned 2 spaces after a sentence, so I  was able to set that and then change it to those clients who liked one space and if I forgot to change it, spellcheck would pick it up.  I have clients who dictate contractions but want them broken out.  It's easier to type what they dictate and then I was able to have contractions flagged so spellcheck would pick them up.  I'm also an editor - now I have to put on show/hide and visually go through an entire document to make sure spacing is correct, no contractions, etc.!!!  

    What is wrong with Microsoft?!?  First they took out the ignore rule option in 2013 (but some genius figured out a go-around for that, thankfully) and now they've taken this very valuable option out.  I sure wish they would listen to US!!!!!

    Also, I tried to roll back to Word 2013 last night.  What a mess.  Wouldn't let me do it.  Seems I'm stuck with 2016.  I've added "punch someone from Microsoft in the face" to my bucket list.  LOL

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  3. Jay Freedman 208.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-09-25T02:58:08+00:00

    The grammar settings have been reduced to a single set of on/off options. The rules applied by the options are explained at Select grammar and writing style options.

    P.S.: Don't shoot the messenger. I'm not happy about this either.

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