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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2016-09-08T06:10:18+00:00

Dear Rohn007,

Thanks for the reply. I have tried and abandoned the downgrading option. Initially it all works fine and you regain important functionality. However, after a while a very intrusive bright yellow, nagging info bar appears at the top of every Office product, urging you to upgrade. This happened despite having told Office not do any upgrade. This intrusive advert is so in your face that I eventually went back to the 2016 product.

MS say that they have solved the problem, but despite having the relevant version of Office 2016 installed, the real world grammar checks don't show.

Thanks for that suggestion, though.
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2016-09-08T14:49:34+00:00

Dear Rohn007,

Thanks for the reply. I have tried and abandoned the downgrading option. Initially it all works fine and you regain important functionality. However, after a while a very intrusive bright yellow, nagging info bar appears at the top of every Office product, urging you to upgrade. This happened despite having told Office not do any upgrade. This intrusive advert is so in your face that I eventually went back to the 2016 product.

MS say that they have solved the problem, but despite having the relevant version of Office 2016 installed, the real world grammar checks don't show.

Thanks for that suggestion, though.

Digby- I downgraded to 2013 within days of upgrading to 2016 due to the reduced functionality of Word, it was a pretty straightforward process. If I remember correctly (it has been quite a while), the nagging to upgrade to 2016 stopped after a short period.

I think for those of us who downgraded (or did not upgrade) it is probably best to wait until the 2016 fix is released and well tested/commented on before upgrading.

anyway, hope you get the functionality you need soon.
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Anonymous

2016-09-08T20:48:23+00:00

If you are still interested in using 2013 until MS gets around to delivering it's purported "fix", I found this possible fix to block the nag message:

http://borncity.com/win/2016/07/11/how-to-stop-the-office-2013-upgrade-to-2016-nag-screen/

(google is your friend, there are many other similar articles).

<edit>

In a stroke, either of "genius" or "...in the brain" (guess which one I vote for), MS has pushed out that advertising nag to business users! People who do NOT control when their software is "upgraded".
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