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
    2016-10-05T20:56:37+00:00

    Nicole:

    Yes, the first quote you provided was my understanding too, reconnect at approx 30 day interval. But just a couple of days ago a user had a question about this issue.  He documented that he was getting the warning to reconnect on a weekly basis!  (Sorry, I don't have a link to that specific question, I couldn't find it, site search sucks!).

    The second link, about dual installs is unsatisfactory. It says you can ONLY mix CTR and MSI installations of 2013 and 2016.  The problem is trying to find MSI installations of either. MS has limited MSI installations in the extreme. Just to Pro Plus, which very people can get.  I want my MSI installs back!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T21:29:58+00:00

    Nicole - a requirement to reconnect at least once a week is often impossible for me and many others.

    If I cannot subscribe to Office 365 with Windows 16 coincident with keeping Office 2013 installed, then the only satisfactory way for me and thousands of others to use Office 2016 with the style checking that we need is for Microsoft to provide the Editor update for everyone with a license for a standalone version of Office 2016 - and to cut all the MS red tape to get that update provided now for existing license users and to make it available for anyone who installs a stand alone version at installation.  After over a year's wait, we all deserve it.

    The 45 pages of this dialog would then come to an end.

    Without such a fix, you have the anomaly of two versions of Office 2016

    • the complete version on subscription, for those who want to subscribe and who can reconnect at least once a week, every week.
    • the incomplete version as a stand alone version, for those who are unable to reconnect at least once a week.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-05T23:24:23+00:00

    You do not need to be connected to the Internet to use the Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installedon your computer.

    ...

    If you do not connect to the Internet at least every 39 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents, but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. To reactivate your Office applications, simply reconnect to the Internet.

    Source: https://products.office.com/en-gb/microsoft-office-for-home-and-school-faq   

    Found it, that question about having to connect weekly:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice\_word-mso\_windows8/does-office-365-require-a-constant-internet/f3facf17-df53-49da-8e82-205c11d6e314?page=2&msgId=4cb89bf6-2e98-42c0-b447-ef91d565d726

    <snip>

    …. at my company I installed Office on a computer that is not directly connected to the internet for security purposes, only an intranet, I registered it, set it up, installed the Outlook signatures, etc. Look it back offline September 19th, on September 20th when opening Excel it said "Couldn't connect to Office. You have until September 27th to Verify Office or Excel will lose the ability to edit [etc, etc}, so sure enough on the 27th it stopped working, so the 29th I connected it to the internet, it started working again, today when opening Word it says "You have until October 7th to verify Office...."

    I hate this..... I hate this so much!

    </snip>

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