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
    2016-02-28T04:55:17+00:00

    I am a transcriptionist, as well as a proofreader.  My "instincts" don't help much when a client doesn't want contractions, yet dictates them.  My "instincts" tell me don't type them, but when I'm transcribing something, I just move along swiftly with the spoken word.  When I do proofing of a job, I want spellcheck/style/grammar to pick up the contractions.  Now, in 2016, I have to do a "find" for apostrophes to check for them.  Imagine a job also full of possessives.  

    My "instincts" also tell me to follow a client's instructions of only one space after a period; however, my "instincts" in my fingers of over 48 years of typing want to put in two spaces.  Now, in 2016, the only way to proof for that in my own work as well as the work of others is by turning on show/hide and checking the dots between sentences.

    MS is taking their sweet time to bring these valuable options back...I actually don't believe they intend to at all.  In the meantime, I am more seriously contemplating a change back to 2013 and cancelling my Office 365 subscription.  As I've said before, I have paid dearly for a downgrade!!  I am also telling anyone who asks, "Do NOT purchase/upgrade to 2016!!"  That's my strong instinct.  

    Quite honestly, I note a touch of "superiority" in your comment.  It could be the work many of us do, in terms of quantity and difficulty, exceeds what you do and we don't have the luxury of our instincts perhaps failing us.  If you have never used the grammar/style checker in previous versions of Word, you're really not qualified to add comments regarding the usefulness.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-28T03:22:29+00:00

    You hit the nail on the head. MS officials claim they removed these features so they could 'save space'..bull..my guess is they re-packaged these features and sold them out to a grammar editor..i.e. Maybe something like Grammarly.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-28T03:20:16+00:00

    If you set your style to 'formal' (can't do this in Word 2016 however) you can then go into the options area and set all sorts of other parameters for writing, APA/MLA, etc... I even have customized macros set up to assist my dissertation review/editing, etc..

    MS Word 2011 is the best of the programs for these features..Word 2016 is a waste of time and money. MS says they are working on putting back 'some' of the grammar/styles/editing features however have no definite timeline or scope..they are fully wasting the time of their customers and stalling. I reverted back to MS Word 2011 and never looked back.

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