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
    2016-09-26T00:44:57+00:00

    The update will also release to all Office for Windows subscription users in late August. Office for Mac subscription users are scheduled to receive the update later this year.

    Nicole,

    It is now late September 2016 and STILL no Grammar fix/update for the rest of us Microsoft Office Users. This is unacceptable - it's been over a year! I had older versions of Office (2007 & 2010) that worked just fine for grammar and style checking, but made the unknowing mistake of upgrading to Office 2016 with my Office 365 school subscription. I NEED the grammar style checker back for my academic papers. How much longer is the FIX going to take???

    And FWIW, there is no Office Insider option available to me either - or I would do it just to get this feature back. How can I go back to Office 2010 to get these features back, since Microsoft doesn't seem to care that much about fixing this issue in a  timely manner?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-25T12:18:27+00:00

    To Why...:

    While your characterization of the CONTENT of Nicole's posting is reasonable, MS has grossly mishandled ("head in the sand") the "accidental" loss of the grammar checking feature.

    But attacking Nicole is simply not fair. She was given information by the people working on that specific problem which she passed on to us. Unfortunately, her contact was probably a manager rather than one of the real "workers" on the project. Again often Managers (and even worse, internal "customers" who are not directly involved in programming) are clueless about the problems in software development and only want to hear and pass on "optimistic" progress reports <big sigh>.

    Yes, be angry about how corporate MS has mistreated us, it's customers, but don't "shoot the messenger", Nicole.

    Go public, any media you can find, about this problem in order to bring pressure on MS to "officially" release information about it. Hopefully (but not holding my breath) that information will be more reliable.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-25T07:13:11+00:00

    To Nicole [MSFT]'s October 9, 2015 post, I say Bull!!! That is pure bull (untrue, and it ignores our concerns and needs).

    We need the previous functionality restored. Now, a year later (September 25, 2016) we still do not have a satisfactory response from MSFT.

    Nicole, read your own words. In paragraph 2 you list what we have been asking to be restored, and in paragraph 3 you ask what our priorities are. You listed our priories in the second paragraph. We want those back. That is such a DUHHHHH!

    This is the end of September, 2016.

    • Where is a sincere apology for the years of inconvenience this software development has caused so many of us?
    • Where is a promise to restore what was taken from the program?
    • Where is a targeted and realistic goal for an update that will correct the problem?

    Ida

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