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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2017-01-27T14:19:50+00:00

Our team is not involved with Office deployment and can't change how updates are distributed. The Office build you have, comes from the Deferred Channel and is the current version in that channel. By default, Office 365 ProPlus suite installation sets the update channel to Deferred Channel if you don't make any changes. To learn more about the various channels in the Office 365 suite, see Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus. To get the feature, your IT department will need to switch to the current channel. Please try the instructions here to do so.
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Anonymous

2017-01-27T00:22:37+00:00

I just got my issue resolved.

It took a downgrade to get the option back.

I downgraded to Office 2013 for my 64-bit version of Windows 10.

The problem is that they do not support that very important feature that I have come to rely on. MSI does not have it either. What does have it is all the 365 subscription versions of Office 365. Pro does have it and definitely Office Home & Student does not support it.

Microsoft should be made to warn people of their new products decision to remove a very important feature that people rely on daily.
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Anonymous

2017-01-26T03:02:53+00:00

This only works if you have the MSI version of Office 2016 (Windows Installer, for Volume Licensing only).

Nicole,

I'm going to ask again, for the 4th time - When are those of us with this version (which STILL says we have the "current version") are going to get the Grammar & Style update - if ever???:

I have this version through my University. PLEASE don't tell me that the University IT department is in control of the updates; that's simply not true. The IT Department says they did not request "Deferred Channel"; don't want deferred/delayed updates; are making all updates available immediately after receiving them from Microsoft; are not holding anything back and have no control over it. They have also told me that they can't do anything about it and they want the updates too! As students, we need the Grammer and Style features - and we used them all the time. If Microsoft isn't going to give us the updates, then please tell me how to go back to my licensed version of 2013 that I paid for!
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