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
    2016-10-05T14:07:18+00:00

    Oh Nicole, this is appalling news!

    I have been trying to encourage freelance contractors with whom I work to use Word to screen for passive voice, only to discover that you have removed this and other grammar checking options from Office 2016.

    Since I came from Office 2010, I don't even have the option of rolling back to Word 2013.

    Some MVPs have been trying to calm us by saying they couldn't imagine that you would discriminate against licence purchasers.  How wrong could they be!  MSFT has now started to differentiate Office suite functionality, which I believe is unprecedented and, worse still, completely opaque to the customer.

    Can you understand that purchasers of licences for Office 2016 had no reason to believe that they were buying an inferior product and now feel deceived?

    Although there are times when I wouldn't even be able to use 365 through lack of connectivity, for me it was mostly a financial choice.  However, there is a significant minority of users who rarely have connectivity, for whom 365 isn't even an option.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T10:54:59+00:00

    I'm a 365 user and have not received any update and grammar is still the same. How do I do this?

    Thanks, 

    Jean

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T10:48:59+00:00

    Please see this thread on the release of Editor:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_officeinsider-mso\_win10/insider-fast-editor-a-new-digital-writing/d0958a07-36d6-4dac-b858-00d84e6c1b2a

    We can confirm that the new Editor feature, which includes style checking options, is a new feature rolling out to subscribers. We recognize that the style checking portions of the Editor feature offer similar capabilities to some features not included in Office 2016, but were included in the prior version. We hear your feedback as this might be an exception to our general policy and though we can’t comment on future plans for the rollout of Office features, we can tell you that the original style checking options were not included in Office 2016 due to very low usage of the feature. Thanks for the feedback.

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