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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2016-10-12T17:48:00+00:00

If you have Office 365, go into File menu> Account command > Update Options button and then select "Update Now" command. With a little luck this will pick up the update with the fix. If you don't get it now, you may have to wait a little longer until it is released in your geographic location.

If you have 1-time-payment Office 2016, you are a second class customer and aren't "good enough" to deserve the fix. You'll have to wait until you buy the next release of Office, whenever it comes out.

It's a manual download.
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Anonymous

2016-10-12T17:06:49+00:00

Cynical, not really, more like realistic.

#1 I agree, it is purely a marketing blackmail decision to exclude one-time payment licenses from this bug fix. It actually would be more work to exclude one-time payment licenses from this fix than it would be to deliver it to everyone.

#2 No internet searches that I know of would have found out about this. The feature was missing during the beta test, the "Preview", but I have to assume that anyone who noticed simply assumed it would be present when Office went GA. Anyone who noticed and got a reply from MS would have been told that it would be present at GA because MS theoretically expected it to be there for GA. I do not recall seeing any mention of this missing feature in any of the product reviews in the media. Actually, I did not hear about the issue until a couple of months after GA (I personally don't use it at this time).

#3 That reasoning is exactly what MS wants. They are doing this to "subtly encourage" (about as subtle as a baseball bat to the back of the head) everyone to switch to the subscription license cash cow. MS has said that they would include all the new features added to 365/2016 into the one-time payment license for VNext. But who can believe that now ... MS said we could have free unlimited onedrive space ... MS said we could have 1TB of free onedrive space ... MS said that this fix would be in place a year ago ...
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2016-10-12T16:42:46+00:00
If you have 1-time-payment Office 2016, you are a second class customer and aren't "good enough" to deserve the fix. You'll have to wait until you buy the next release of Office, whenever it comes out.

Sorry to be so cynical, Rohn, but:
1. There's no technical reason for MSFT not fixing Office 2016 right now. All it would take is the click of a mouse. Since MSFT has deliberately removed this from Office 2016, forking the product, why would I expect MSFT to restore it in Office 201X?
2. I feel like an idiot for buying this licence, but what kind of search engine query would have revealed this skullduggery? No one wanted to believe that MSFT would deliberately fork the product and it's only very recently that MSFT admitted that it had done precisely that.
3. Why would I or anyone else risk buying a licence for a pig-in-a-poke Office 201X, only to find that MSFT had covertly ripped yet more functionality out of it?
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