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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2016-09-23T05:20:16+00:00

It is now almost a year since Nicole indicated the temporary gap in proofing style on Office 2016 would be fixed in a few months. In a more recent post, Nicole stated that MS posted an update with style proofing for insiders. I have a license for a stand alone Office 2016 that is not under Office 365 and I am not an insider. When can I install my Office 2016 and find the Style Proofing available?
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Anonymous

2016-09-25T07:13:11+00:00
To Nicole [MSFT]'s October 9, 2015 post, I say Bull!!! That is pure bull (untrue, and it ignores our concerns and needs).

We need the previous functionality restored. Now, a year later (September 25, 2016) we still do not have a satisfactory response from MSFT.

Nicole, read your own words. In paragraph 2 you list what we have been asking to be restored, and in paragraph 3 you ask what our priorities are. You listed our priories in the second paragraph. We want those back. That is such a DUHHHHH!

This is the end of September, 2016.
- Where is a sincere apology for the years of inconvenience this software development has caused so many of us?
- Where is a promise to restore what was taken from the program?
- Where is a targeted and realistic goal for an update that will correct the problem?
Ida
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Anonymous

2016-09-25T12:18:27+00:00

To Why...:

While your characterization of the CONTENT of Nicole's posting is reasonable, MS has grossly mishandled ("head in the sand") the "accidental" loss of the grammar checking feature.

But attacking Nicole is simply not fair. She was given information by the people working on that specific problem which she passed on to us. Unfortunately, her contact was probably a manager rather than one of the real "workers" on the project. Again often Managers (and even worse, internal "customers" who are not directly involved in programming) are clueless about the problems in software development and only want to hear and pass on "optimistic" progress reports <big sigh>.

Yes, be angry about how corporate MS has mistreated us, it's customers, but don't "shoot the messenger", Nicole.

Go public, any media you can find, about this problem in order to bring pressure on MS to "officially" release information about it. Hopefully (but not holding my breath) that information will be more reliable.
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