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
    2016-08-29T12:58:07+00:00

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

    Yes, Susan, that's good that Office 365 subscribers have an update.

    However, lots of other folk who also have thousands of hours invested in Office products have purchased the offline product, out of preference or lack of constant connectivity.  In my case, both.

    Purchasers of Office 2016 don't even have a timetable from Nicole for rectifying a problem that should never have arisen in the first place.

    It's just so demeaning to customers for Microsoft not to respond to a perfectly reasonable and polite question that only she, or someone of similarly elevated pay-grade, can answer.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-08-29T14:34:44+00:00

    Okay, it wasn't clear from your post that you have the perpetual license rather than the subscription. This question has been escalated to the Office team, but we (MVPs) haven't received a response, either.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-29T15:03:20+00:00

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

    Hello Susan,

    Yesterday I updated my 365 Office 2016 from Version 16.0.7070.2033 to 16.0.7167.2040 via Word -> File -> Office Updates - Update Options -> Update Now.  A subsequent check this morning indicated that I'm up to date on updates.

    However, the Style and Grammar Proofing updates that I've been really been waiting for have still not been included for me. Is there any way to get it other than by joining the Insider group? 

    Thanks for your help.

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