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
    2016-09-05T13:49:11+00:00

    Sorry, it must have been wishful thinking that Nicole had said this, because I don't think she has!

    However, when I posted this specific question FAO Nicole, Stefan Blom pointed me to https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-Word-for-Windows-bf6bf17c-2807-4871-83ce-e337ae8f0b86, which does not appear to be restricted to Office 365 and states:

    The Grammar & Writing Style option is missing in Word 2016

    When accessing the File > Options > Proofing > When correcting spelling and grammar in Word > Writing Style menu option in Word 2016, Grammar & Style is missing.

    We are aware of this issue and we plan to fix it in a coming update. When the update is available, we'll post here with information about how to get it.

    Am I way too gullible?  Am I just reading that this applies to purchasers of Word 2016 because that's what I want to be the case?

    Please, don't anyone hold your breath waiting!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-05T13:34:02+00:00

    And Ma 365  users are out of luck  again. Guess our money is not good enough

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-05T13:17:27+00:00

    Hey Alan:

    Exactly where did Nicole say that (sorry, I'm not motivated enough to look through 35 pages for it).  All of the notices I've seen have explicitly said the fix will be going to "subscribers", NOT all users. And it generally tracks with limiting "new features" to 365 subscribers to "encourage" one-time payment users to switch to 365.

    There is absolutely NO technical reason why everyone cannot get the fix. The fix will be distributed through the Windows Update process.  Right now distribution is limited to Office (365) "insiders" during the final beta test, which is reasonable. The final fix will be delivered the same way. It will require extra work (granted, not much, probably just setting a "flag") by MS to limit it to 365 subscribers rather than all Office users.

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