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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2015-11-05T15:30:07+00:00

Oh I see. Not sure why you don't see a Proofing Pane on the right. It provides much more information on grammar errors and examples. It should also come when you have a grammar squiggle in your document and you hit F7. Thanks for the screenshots. The "Possible Word Choice Error" is actually generated by our Context Sensitive Speller and not by the Grammar Checker, but still not reproducible here. I understand your frustration and I will definitely come back on this thread once we release an update with the Style rules. Thanks for your help trying to get to the bottom of this.
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2015-11-05T14:58:36+00:00

Nicole, as I said before, the proofing pane does not open up when I right click on the squiggle and there is no drop-down menu that pops up, only the spell checker box comes up with its suggestion (and nothing pops up on the "right side"). I stated in my first post regarding this issue what the grammar rule was....subject verb agreement for mention/mentions and it was "possible word choice error" for it's/its (which should be a non-issue when either word is used correctly).

Below is what I consider to be the proofing pane. You see a drop-down box in Writing Style...but it's useless as it only "drops down" to grammar...there are no other choices. Below that is what happens when I do spell check (and what I want to happen when it's a "logical" and correct suggestion). If I click on options (which is largely unnecessary because one would assume options have already been set), then the proofing pane comes up.

This is all becoming so convoluted and expensive in time.

All most of us want back is the OLD GRAMMAR AND STYLE options that were available up until some boneheads spent time and money removing them from 2016! Sorry, but I've been paying a monthly fee for Office 365 and, I'll say it again, I expect UPDATES, not DOWNGRADES. This reminds me of the time Coke spent all its money on changing the original Coke formula....then they had to spend all their money bringing it back. Why fix something that's not broken!?!?

I really feel I'm done with this discussion. I'll wait until the beginning of the year to see what changes MS comes out with regarding all these issues and decide then which route I want to take.
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Anonymous

2015-11-05T10:36:36+00:00

Thanks for checking. Yes, correct, only when you click on "Grammar" in the dropdown menu after right-clicking on the squiggle, the Proofing Pane on the right side will open up. Can you tell me what it says in the Proofing Pane? It should have a description of the grammar rule that fired (e.g. Subject Verb agreement or Confusable Words).
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