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
    2016-01-23T17:14:19+00:00

    Ironically, the first sentence in the link provided in your post is "Word 2016 for Windows has all the functionality and features you're used to". No, it does not. Office 2016 is an incomplete product. I am currently in the processing of reverting 4 systems from Office 2016 back to Office 2013. The lack of full proofing capabilities makes 2016 a beta version. I've worked in IT for years and am currently working on a Masters in information assurance and computer security. I upgraded all of our home computers in Dec while on class break. Ready to start a new paper for the new semester's classes, and guess what, Word is broke. The original post for this issue was back in Sep 2015. It is now near the end of Jan 2016 and still no fix? In my mind, this is a major Microsoft failure.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-21T22:15:21+00:00

    I just upgraded to 2016 and am shocked by the lack of a style check. When you add it back in, please consider the use of first-person, passive voice, and contraction checks as well. These style checks were helpful when grading academic papers, and they also helped students with real-time style feedback when writing the papers in the first place. The lack of style checks is a blow for academically oriented work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-12T22:43:04+00:00

    FYI- There are no Grammar and Writing Style options in Word 2016- just Grammar.  I can put;: punctuation anywhere I like and it will not be flagged.  Really? How do you sell a product that simply does not work properly? Heads should roll for this one.  Just sayin

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