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
    2016-07-30T17:14:42+00:00

    I'll add there are also yearly licenses to O365, at a discounted rate. Given you have a license purchase, do you know for a fact that the feature will not be provided once it is available beyond Insiders? I would have to guess it will be... but then, that does require an internet connection sooner or later.

    This thread was based on the disappearance of the feature. It is now trickling back into the programme. To get it, you are going to need that internet connection denounced as an unworkable option for some.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-30T17:32:43+00:00

    Yes, nelle, there are yearly subscriptions to Office 365.  There is also the (up to) 4yr (for a single payment) Office 365 University.

    These are 365 subscriptions, so they WILL get the grammar feature when it rolls out in their location. They are 365, so yes they have to connect to the internet every month.

    I didn't denounce the internet as unworkable. I simply recognized that some people live and work in locations where the internet is not reliably available as a high speed connection.  Those people will have Office 2016, or if they have 365, they have to make the periodic internet connection some way (trip to town etc). At that time they will also get the grammar code after it is released.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-30T18:02:07+00:00

    Given you have a license purchase, do you know for a fact that the feature will not be provided once it is available beyond Insiders? I would have to guess it will be...

    Given that the only facts we have to date are that this feature will 'one day' be available to all subscription users, on what basis do you say that one-time-purchase users will get it too? As we can all see, Nicole (an Office PM) and other MS employees have pointedly not addressed this issue so far. I am betting that you are wrong and they will provide this update only to Office 365 subscribers, which is why they are mum and don't want to respond.

    All I can say is good, just gives us more incentive to stop paying MS for Office. Along with their latest OS it's clear they're only interested in providing degraded end user experiences now. Shame.

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