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
    2016-07-03T17:13:49+00:00

    You can't in 2016. I had to revert back to 2013 to have that feature. Being an author, the sentence structure and passive voice are important.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-03T17:12:13+00:00

    I reverted back to 2013. It's better for me but I also think if MS is going to "upgrade" something, they should keep all the older features. It's not what I'd call an upgrade at all. More like a downgrade because it's missing important features.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-01T19:57:29+00:00

    I had to downgrade back to 2013 after thinking that 2016 was an improvement. It is not an improvement precisely because it is missing those grammar and style features. Instead of removing them, you should be adding more of them before releasing the update--not release the update first and leave people hanging. I see absolutely nothing better in 2016 other than it has "sharing" features which I actually do not want (I make sure I am always signed out).

    Even worse, you program the software to hound people to upgrade without making it easy to turn off the upgrade notifications. Then we upgrade thinking it is an improvement only to discover what we need is not there. Then, we have to go through the nonsense of downgrading only to now discover that the downgrade process has made another vital piece of software inoperable.

    I use Word primarily to grade student papers. I use the Style and Grammar settings to easily identify basic writing errors my students have made and I then provide feedback. Without those features it takes much longer to grade papers.

    After downgrading, I also discovered that Dragon is no longer working. How in the world could Microsoft release a so-called updated version that has such features missing in a product that is intended to be used to type up documents? It is utterly ridiculous.

    I purchased a new computer. I am installing my 2007 on it. It works, it doesn't have a "store" it doesn't have idiotic "share" features. it doesn't hound me to upgrade,  and it has what I need.

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