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
    2016-08-29T09:07:07+00:00
    1. Have heads rolled because of the degradation of consumer experience after an "upgrade"? If not, they should.

    Taking away features millions of users depend on for a livelihood with a legal, paid-for upgrade is SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE.

    1. There will always be registers for proofing that cannot, and should not ever be auto-detected. The human needs to set the mode to one of the proofing options: "Standard", "Formal", "Technical". These were available until Word 2013 for Mac. You CANNOT do away with that, no matter what. If there's anyone at Microsoft who thinks those options were fine to kill, i'd like to meet the idiot.
    2. While you rave and rant about piracy, THIS is what i get when i use a fully paid version of Microsoft — The ground yanked from below my feet. Again, simply not acceptable.

    I say you should drop everything else and simply put back what was always there — didn't work perfectly, but it did 90% of the work. Right now, i'm down to 0% support from my "word processor".

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-29T09:28:05+00:00

    Let's save our breath, folks!

    LibreOffice is very agile - you make a suggestion, someone says they may have a solution, it gets tested and incorporated.  And it's free!

    On http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/writing-style-checking-in-word-outlook-2016/acfea581-84c0-429f-9ff3-4e28d27c2e4c, I specifically asked Nicole (Program Manager Natural Language Experiences in Office) to address the timescale for Office 2016 and she has not deigned to reply.

    The Microsoft Empire isn't interested in its customers and deserves to wither.

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-08-29T12:13:28+00:00

    On http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/writing-style-checking-in-word-outlook-2016/acfea581-84c0-429f-9ff3-4e28d27c2e4c, I specifically asked Nicole (Program Manager Natural Language Experiences in Office) to address the timescale for Office 2016 and she has not deigned to reply.

    The new proofing tools have already been included in an update for Office 365 users.

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