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
    2016-08-31T00:29:28+00:00

    They didn't fix it period.  APA is in the for the subscribers now, however, it appears somebody at Microsoft did not read the APA manual as many things per APA is still significantly wrong.  Just another blunder from MS. I ended up going back to the Office 2013 so I could work on my papers with a little more comfort as I knew the errors in 2013.  MS has not learned their lessons from the past blunders and continue to make things worse at the expense of others. Boo on Microsoft.  I spend hours with the Help desk from three different ones and got the usual run around from each and what is worse, none of them could consistently tell me the same thing.  If they market a product as "new and improved", it should free from errors not waiting on developers to fix the mess after it is released.  I agree apologies do us no good but the money is in the MS bank account leaving individuals out of luck to have others such as those in this community who volunteer to help fix the mess they created. MS should get back to the basics instead of trying to re-invent the wheel. MS used to be a name you could trust but their reputation is going down hill with all of the half-baked products they are releasing here as of recent with the thoughts of monopolizing the market. 

    The 2016 version also automatically disables the Grammarly plug-in and does not recognize the words in the Miriam-Webster dictionary as you can add them in though..why am I doing their work for them?  There are more things with 2016 wrong and I just know a few that I use more often.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-31T00:32:36+00:00

    Yes, you can get it when you downgrade back to 2013. So much for "new and improved". Some heads should roll after this blunder!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-31T00:39:24+00:00

    I think you need to check again on that one.

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