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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2015-10-20T13:31:21+00:00

Nicole...what new features were "added" to Word 2016 in place of all the valuable features lost?

As for rules such as "Fragment, consider revising," I found those useful as well, since they alerted me to do exactly that, consider revising. I'm smart enough that I don't need to have a solution provided to me at all times for all things; some things aren't just a simple click (again, like the valuable "ignore rule" option that we lost in 2013). It can be healthier to come up with your own solutions. I'll mention GuyWithQuestion again...those people who found them not useful had the option to simply not use them.

In the future, perhaps MS should consider asking ALL of their users what they find useful or what can be eliminated (so MS doesn't have to spend too much money...ahem). They may have received negative feedback about certain features, but what percentage were those users of the entire population? Was there beta testing of the new Word 2016? This subscriber doesn't recall being asked to participate. :)

Thank you for your very prompt responses!!
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Anonymous

2015-10-20T14:31:03+00:00

This was just an example to explain why features sometimes disappear. There are many new features in Word 2016, please see here for example:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-Word-2016-4219dfb5-23fc-4853-95aa-b13a674a6670 or the Word Blog here:

https://blogs.office.com/word/

We also had Beta testing for Office 2016 since January 2015 where each month more users were added up to 30M. Apologies, that you were not included, I don't know how users are selected for Beta programs. We didn't get much feedback from Beta users about the missing Style options, but we are now working on re-implementing them based on the valuable feedback we received from you and other people on this thread. We appreciate that the style options are very important to you and are working on bringing them back as soon as possible.

We have millions of users for each of the 40 different languages in which Word is available and it's not possible for us to ask every single user in every language for their opinion on every single feature in Word. That's why we rely on feedback from Beta programs and users like you.
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Anonymous

2015-10-24T19:05:39+00:00

While I miss the style checking, it is worth noting that after having used the new grammar checker for a while now, I have enjoyed not getting the false positives that were common in previous versions.
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