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. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-09-01T18:41:53+00:00

    Rohn, thanks for the explanation. Clearly I'm not updated with the most recent changes in Word 2016.

    Are you saying that bibliography formats and citations are grouped together with the grammar style checker in the most recent update? That sounds peculiar.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-01T20:26:08+00:00

    Are you saying that bibliography formats and citations are grouped together with the grammar style checker in the most recent update? That sounds peculiar.

    Not quite.

    I am saying that the control of specific style and grammar checking options were "always" grouped together, if you selected the appropriate option in the past. 

    Look in the "Grammar Settings" dialog (I gave specific location of this option in previous post) of any of the older versions and you'll see this is true.  One of the drop down options you can select is "Grammar & Style" checking.  When you do that you see all of the general "Grammar checking" options you can turn on and off and as well you see the "Style checking" options you can control that are specific to the Grammar style you selected in the Ribbon.

    For Office 2016 MS "pewed the scrooch" when they were trying to "improve" grammar checking. As I understand it, they are recreating the code, presumably to "improve" it or more likely to replace code that they are paying licensing fees to someone else for. The problem was that the effort was MUCH harder than they thought so it took them an extra year to "finish" (until we see the released update, we won't know how "finished" the fix really is, so yes, I am skeptical until that time).

    So, in September 2016 when MS dumped (aka "released") Office 2016/365 to the general public

    it was UNFINISHED, BROKEN!

    ... They sold us a "pig in the poke".

    ... They sold us a DEFECTIVE PRODUCT !

    Now, MS won't ever say it those ways, (and frankly as a MVP it is not "politically correct" for me to say it that way <grin>)  but from this side of the argument, that is the "plain truth" view of the issue.

    Frankly, given the litigious environment that the USA is, I am amazed that no one has sued MS over this egregious defect.

    <rant ...>

    So, now the question is, will MS do the "right thing" and offer the fix to everyone, or just limit the fix to their new "preferred customers", 365 subscribers ONLY.  The question has been asked several times. MS staff who have posted updates telling us about progress on the issue say that the question has been passed on the Office team, but I have not seen an specific answer to the question either way. 

    I have to assume that based on the current statements by MS staff it will only be offered to 365 subscribers ... <sigh> </end rant!>

    PS: As for not being completely up to date on changes made in 2016, that is no surprise. This specific "new and improved" <heavy sarcasm> feature (missing grammar checking) was NEVER mentioned by MS or by ANY of the allegedly impartial media who published "what's new" articles about 2016 last year.  It was a few months after the release that I first heard about the problem, in this forum. Like a cat trying to "cover up" its mess on a tile floor, MS hoped that no one would notice the issue ...

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-03T23:47:16+00:00

    maybe all of us collectively on this forum should sue them because they just hang up on you when you don't accept their lying drivel  ... I am mega p+++d off at what this has and is costing me as a professional ...

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