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
    2016-10-21T08:15:37+00:00

    So it seems you have 2 concerns.

    Since you have the one-time payment license for 2016 you (we) are considered a second-class customer. That is all I see too.  MS decided to treat the "fix" for the missing grammar checking as a "new feature" so they could have an excuse for limiting it to Office 365 pay-for-lifers only...

    Spanish ... Do you ever use Spanish?

    Is this in all documents, or some select subset: only "old" ones, only "new" ones, other?

    So you already looked in File menu >Options command > Language option. Do you have spanish installed as an editing language? You say it is "set to English".  Is English set as the "Editing Language" and is 'Proofing' for English "Installed"

    If all of that is set correctly the next steps are fairly simple:

    • do an Office Repair
    • do an Uninstall through the control panel, and Re-install
    • do an Uninstall using the "fix it", and re-install

    Note: before uninstalling, make sure you have your 25 character Product Key. You can check in MyAccount.

    Repair Office 2016 / 2013 / 365

    How to Start Repair in Pictures Win 7-10  https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Repair-an-Office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b 

    Repair Office 2013/2016 in Pictures  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/wiki/office\_365hp-office\_install/repair-office-365-in-pictures/f09d64b7-cfcc-4d07-be0b-0c429682d01a 

    This next link has uninstall instructions for both types of installs:

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-2013-or-Office-365-from-a-Windows-computer-9dd49b83-264a-477a-f8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US – ‘new” uninstall 365/2016/2013 page

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971179 5:30 video Plus “Fix It” tools for 2003-2010

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-21T16:18:08+00:00

    We value users’ feedback, and are pleased to announce that we’re planning to enable the style options in Grammar checking for Office 2016 users this winter – stay tuned for updates on availability. The Editor feature, which includes new style options and other ongoing enhancements to the experience, will continue to be exclusively offered through an Office 365 subscription.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-21T17:20:21+00:00

    This response is disingenuous and unsatisfactory, since it completely ignores the fact that Office 2010 and Office 2013 both contain Style checking options in Proofing, that the standalone version of Office 2016 lacks those style checking options, and that Microsoft's announcements on the launch of Office 2016 (a) proclaimed it to be an improvement on the earlier versions and (b) failed to warn users of the earlier versions of the omission of the style checking options.

    It is not good enough for Microsoft to restore to the standalone version of Office 2016 the Grammar checking without any style checking.  At the very least, Microsoft has an obligation to provide owners of the standalone version of Office 2016 with a style and grammar checker that is at least  as good as available in Office 2013.

    A far better solution would be for Microsoft to provide owners of the standalone version with the same spelling, grammar, and style checking as are now provided to Office 365 subscribers; since there are clearly many people for whom sporadic Internet access (much longer than the few hours of the huge cyber-attack on the East Coast this morning) makes the mandatory frequent logging into the Internet to continue using Office 365 unrealistic.

    Come on Microsoft - treat us all equally for 2016.  If you want to apply differential treatment, then do so with the next version - Office 2018, say.

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