Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

In her post that begins "The English Style Options are now available to Windows Word and Outlook Insiders with Office build 16.0.7167.2015."Nicole tells us that the Windows Style options are now available to insiders.

I am not an insider.  I don't want to be an insider.  I don't want to subscribe to Office 365.

Nicole - please provide a straight answer to this straight question.

When will license holders of a stand alone version of Office 2016 that one can use off line 24/7 be able to install the stand alone Office 2016 and find it has the Style Checking options listed in your post?

As Background, I bought my laptop this year with a stand alone Office 2016 installed.

Microsoft's promotional material on Office 2016 (a) claims it is better than Office 2013 and (b) makes no claim that it was intended to lack the style checker feature available in Office 2013.  Therefore, this style checker, although it might have more capabilities than that available in Office 2010 or Office 2013, is not a New Feature; it is the restoration of a feature that Microsoft's announcements implied would be part of all versions of Office 2016.

As I needed a style checker, I uninstalled Office 2016 from my PC, bought Office 2013 from a third party vendor and have used it for the past three months. 

Nicole - When can I reinstall Office 2016, as a stand alone product I can use 24/7 off line, and be confident it will contain the style checker features listed in your post, which focuses only on what insiders can access.

Office 2016, without a style checker, is "not fit for purpose,"  If the answer to my question is "never," then when will Microsoft offer to reimburse license holders of a stand alone Office 2016 for its cost, so they can buy Office 2013 licenses from Third Party vendors instead?

The English Style Options are now available to Windows Word and Outlook Insiders with Office build 16.0.7167.2015.

If you’re not an Office Insider yet and want to become one, please sign-up here: https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider

The update will also release to all Office for Windows subscription users in late August. Office for Mac subscription users are scheduled to receive the update later this year.

Note that we're still working on further improving these options. Please let us know if you notice false flags (= incorrect flags/unexpected flags), missed flags or incorrect suggestions.

To enable the feature do the following:

In Word 2016:

1. Go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Proofing"
2. Select the second Writing Style "Grammar &  more" in the drop down in the section "When correcting spelling and grammar in Word" -  if this is greyed out, start a new document and go the Proofing options form there to enable it.

 

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. Check the checkbox next to "Mark grammar errors as you type" in the "When correcting spelling in Outlook" section.
4. Select the second Writing Style "Grammar & more" in the drop down in the section "When correcting spelling in Outlook" (like for Word).
   1. If this is greyed out, see step 1.


The following Options are included:

• Complex Words*
• Contractions*
• Wordiness
• Clichés
• Informal Language
• Double Negation
• Jargon
• Nominalizations
• Passive Voice with Known Actor
• Passive Voice with Unknown Actor (No Suggestions available)*
• Words in Split infinitives (more than one)
• Gender-Specific language
• Words Expressing Uncertainty*
• Slang
• Oxford Comma
• Punctuation with Quotes*
• Spaces between Sentences*

*These Options are disabled. To enable them go into the Grammar Settings (Settings... in the screenshot above) and check the checkbox next to the Options you want to enable.

We've also included fixes for known Grammar bugs in this update.

We're working on improving the Grammar Checker further and will release more Grammar Options in the coming months. Since the Grammar and Style Options are now fully ported to new technology, improvements can be released quicker going forward.

Apologies again for the inconvenience the absence of this feature has caused.

Thanks, Nicole

I have attempted to make the corrections as noted in the highlighted text above. However the "grammar settings   "grammar & more" is not available.

Any other suggestions?

dacardillo

bring back passive voice checking. Soon. Please.