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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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2016-10-22T20:47:38+00:00

Just because you assert that the "FIX does not require any preparation whatsoever to deploy." does NOT mean that an IT department would not be deferring the roll-out of any modification to the software, be it a fix or update or whatever.

Deferring the roll-out of updates is a policy decision and the use of the word "prepare" may have been a bad choice. The purpose of deferring the roll-out of updates is usually to give the IT department the opportunity to confirm that the update does not break something else.

Unfortunately, there have been many recent updates that have done just that. For example the 16.0.7369.#### updates have screwed up the rendering of UserForms.

For that, Microsoft can be blamed. However they cannot be blamed for the policy decisions of IT departments, other than for the fact that those departments have been given cause to implement a policy of deferring updates.

I believe that you should, in the instance, retract your last sentence.
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Anonymous

2016-10-22T17:57:26+00:00

I don't know what "the editor" is, but have you clicked on File, the Account, then Updates? The new grammar check is there, and it's a manual download. Non-subscription holders apparently aren't going to get this add-on, which shouldn't be an "add-on."

Yes, I have done that many, many times (almost daily). My version of Office 365 never goes beyond 16.0.696 5.2092, which does not have the add-on/update (FIX). Microsoft is now blaming that on the universities and business IT departments, saying that these IT departments "choose" to defer updates to give them time to "prepare." I've worked in many IT departments - this "add-on," which is actually a FIX, does not require any preparation whatsoever to deploy. It's all more Microsoft lies and passing the blame.
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2016-10-22T17:06:43+00:00

I don't know what "the editor" is, but have you clicked on File, the Account, then Updates? The new grammar check is there, and it's a manual download. Non-subscription holders apparently aren't going to get this add-on, which shouldn't be an "add-on."
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