Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

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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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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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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:

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

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:

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

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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Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2016-06-29T11:05:51+00:00

Dear Microsoft :)

Please, please bring back ALL of the proofing tools for the word application. I rely on the phrase, 'if it is not broken, don't fix it'. I am using Word 2013 and would love to upgrade; however, without the proofing tools in 2013 I simply can't. I have to write legal papers, which requires the third person narratives. Students must use this feature for a college paper as well. Having the option in 2013 allows me to see the error and not having it in 2016 just adds more stress to my job. Therefore, I must resort to begging... Please, please include ALL of the proofing tools in 2016. Sincerely, Yours for Life - just stuck in 2013.

The way to talk to Microsoft, rather than your fellow users, is at UserVoice.

Please do add your vote and comment about displeasure with this "improvement" to the UserVoice site. MS actively monitors UserVoice postings

Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules -https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that
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Anonymous

2016-06-29T00:27:32+00:00

Dear Microsoft :)

Please, please bring back ALL of the proofing tools for the word application. I rely on the phrase, 'if it is not broken, don't fix it'. I am using Word 2013 and would love to upgrade; however, without the proofing tools in 2013 I simply can't. I have to write legal papers, which requires the third person narratives. Students must use this feature for a college paper as well. Having the option in 2013 allows me to see the error and not having it in 2016 just adds more stress to my job. Therefore, I must resort to begging... Please, please include ALL of the proofing tools in 2016. Sincerely, Yours for Life - just stuck in 2013.
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2016-06-24T17:46:39+00:00

I just discovered this problem and this thread. I am a regular writer, an academic, and I rely on Word to flag passive voice. I cannot believe this is gone!

Yup it happened. The fix is "in progress". No projected date for the fix.

Till the real fix is released you have a couple of options. "Retrograde Upgrade" back to previous version or 3rd party grammar checking tools.

Please do add your vote and comment about displeasure with this "improvement" to the UserVoice site. MS actively monitors UserVoice postings

Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules -https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that

"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites

You can use the Office or Windows 10 "feedback" (**)applets but then your suggestions just fall into a black hole. You get no feedback from MS about your feedback.

A better place to submit this type of feedback the "UserVoice" forum. You can submit suggestions like this to the forum either by "voting" and commenting on a similar existing suggestion or by creating a new suggestion for others to vote and comment on.

This next link has a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided below or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016 and to at least partially undo the 2016 changes to the way the Pen input works.

Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. If you make a new suggestion, copy the link to your suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.) Please get all of your friends and co-workers who use Office to vote for your issue!
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