Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

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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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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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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:

Go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Proofing"
If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
Click on “Settings”

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:

From a popped-out mail window, go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Mail". (Don't do this from the main Outlook window.)
Click on "Spelling and Autocorrect…" in the section "Compose messages". You'll be taken to the "Proofing" tab of the "Editor Options" dialog.
If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
Check the checkbox next to "Mark grammar errors as you type" in the "When correcting spelling in Outlook" section.

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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2016-09-05T14:24:16+00:00

Yes, we are all dealing with assumptions right now.

In this other question:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/checking-style-in-proofing-in-word-2016/ca63bf72-3f00-45b9-87cd-f15ed414098a?page=26

announcing the release of the "fix" for the problem they say "The update will also release to all Office for Windows subscription users in late August." They explicitly say "Subscription users". I've seen that wording in another similar reply. Now, it may be an accidental "slip of the tongue" and they "really" mean everyone will get the fix, but that wording probably would have come from the Office team and that is exactly what they meant. When I posted a reply explicitly questioning that wording Erik J \[MSFT\] a MS employee and forum moderator replied that he had personally taken the question up to the Office engineering team. But there has not been any further clarification.

We just have to wait for a reply with clarification, or wait to see ultimately what happens in the real world when the fix is "promoted" from the "Insider" program to the general availability. I'm not holding my breath, and I'm not hopeful.
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Anonymous

2016-09-05T15:04:21+00:00

Yes, as well as the fact that they already appear to have missed that deadline for release to non-Insider subscribers, that wording doesn't give one cause for hope.

I think Office is in partial melt-down. If I didn't have so much invested in Office, I'd immediately switch to LibreOffice.
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Anonymous

2016-09-05T20:07:12+00:00

Office subscribers do have something but it is not what it once was. I went ahead and foolishly subscribed and so I could get the APA features but it really is poor as you still do not have the functions as 2013 with the styles and proofing. MS help desk agents refer you back to office 2013 articles as a fix for the styles and proofing in 2016. Go figure. Argument after argument, they finally gave me back office 2013 as I was tired of the outright lies and blunders MS has made. When speaking with them make sure they give you are reference number so they can track all of the different conversations you have had with the agents. It is ashamed for what MS has become.
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