Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

Anonymous

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

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

Answer accepted by question author

Anonymous

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.

0 comments

Answer accepted by question author

Anonymous

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

0 comments

658 additional answers

Anonymous

2016-08-29T09:07:07+00:00
1. Have heads rolled because of the degradation of consumer experience after an "upgrade"? If not, they should.
Taking away features millions of users depend on for a livelihood with a legal, paid-for upgrade is SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE.
1. There will always be registers for proofing that cannot, and should not ever be auto-detected. The human needs to set the mode to one of the proofing options: "Standard", "Formal", "Technical". These were available until Word 2013 for Mac. You CANNOT do away with that, no matter what. If there's anyone at Microsoft who thinks those options were fine to kill, i'd like to meet the idiot.
2. While you rave and rant about piracy, THIS is what i get when i use a fully paid version of Microsoft — The ground yanked from below my feet. Again, simply not acceptable.
I say you should drop everything else and simply put back what was always there — didn't work perfectly, but it did 90% of the work. Right now, i'm down to 0% support from my "word processor".
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2016-08-29T07:07:52+00:00

I am still waiting too ... they refuse to refund the big bucks paid for the standalone product ... and hang up on you when you ask to speak to a supervisor ... MS i nothing but a complete tip off ... and whatever they did to the spell checker they need to undo because it is worse than pre 2000 ... it does not make sense when it spell checks ...
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2016-08-28T21:37:51+00:00

I am still waiting for a clear answer from Nicole or another official MS spokesperson on what MS will do for those who bought and will buy standalone Office 2016, without 365, subscriptions, or being insiders. The current program is significantly worse than Office 2013 for proofing options.

The temporary nature of the problem continues to exist for all except insiders who are 365 subscribers.

A simple solution would be for MS to provide a downloadable app or add on of the program that corresponds to the Office 2013 Style checker or Office 2013 Style and Grammar Checker, that would work with Office 2016 and that would be free to anyone who bought a standalone version of Office 2016.

If MS wants to make the Office 2016 style checker more complicated, presumably with the need for several updates to correct for errors, fine - but nobody should have to wait for that, or accept that until we know it works OK.

Meantime, Owners of standalone Office 2016 deserve a product that has a working style checker that is at least as good as on Office 2013. A free downloadable app or add on would provide that solution.

We deserve a style checker that we can install and use now.

Apologies for delays, however sincere, do us no good.
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments