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
    2016-10-11T20:47:27+00:00

    Hello Nicole,

    I have a subscription through my work to Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus. It is being run on a Surface Pro 3. I just did an update and my version is 16.0.6965.2092. This appears to be an older version than you indicated and does not contain the ability to check style. Why am I not getting the latest update or why do I not have style checking?

    I really would appreciate the ability once again to check style as well as grammar.

    Brian

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-11T21:13:36+00:00

    You are in what is known as the "deferred channel." This would have been selected by your IT department when they set up your subscription. Some organizations choose to be on an older version of the product, as it gives them more time to prepare their organization for changes. It takes longer to get the new features, though. You can work with your IT department to request that you be moved to the current channel to get these features now.

    Freya

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-11T21:21:51+00:00

    I found an "official" posting about this issue here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-Word-for-Windows-bf6bf17c-2807-4871-83ce-e337ae8f0b86?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

    copied directly from there it says:

    <snip>

    The Grammar & Writing Style option is missing in Word 2016 [FIXED]

    When accessing the File > Options > Proofing > When correcting spelling and grammar in Word > Writing Style menu option in Word 2016, Grammar & Style is missing.

    Grammar & Style has been replaced by Grammar & more. Grammar & more is now part of Editor, which is available only to Office 365 subscribers – learn more about Editor on this thread.

    We can confirm that the new Editor feature, which includes style checking options, is a new feature now rolling out to subscribers, not just Insiders. We recognize that the style checking portions of the Editor feature offer similar capabilities to some features not included in Office 2016, but were included in the prior version. We hear your feedback as this might be an exception to our general policy and though we can’t comment on future plans for the rollout of Office features, we can tell you that the original style checking options were not included in Office 2016 due to very low usage of the feature. Thanks for the feedback.

    </snip>

    THAT IS NO FIX!

    According to this they have given up on fixing the problem in Word! Quote "Grammar & Style has been replaced by Grammar & More. Grammar and More is part of Editor..."  Editor is a new feature limited to 365 subscribers! 

    And they have the gall to say that their spyware, aka "telemetry", says that no one is using Grammar Checking. PFFFFFT!!!!!  Really? What that tells me is that their telemetry sucks! The numbers are not reliable.

    It was bad enough when they making one-time license holders "second class customers" by not providing new features being released to 365 subscribers.  I could understand it, kinda, for new (cr)apps. But not for features that are integrated into the core applications, like grammar or the new charts in excel or Morph in . 

    NOW, they are increasing the attack on one-time licenses.  Now they are actively stripping features out of the programs!  Wow, talk about gall!

    Come on you yanks! Were are the lawsuits?  By now there should be a flock of class action law suits. Or are you too distracted by that ongoing train wreck, your "presidential" election. Nothing "presidential" in the proceedings that I've seen!

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