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
    2016-11-28T19:02:50+00:00

    Just because you assert that the "FIX does not require any preparation whatsoever to deploy." does NOT mean that an IT department would not be deferring the roll-out of any modification to the software, be it a fix or update or whatever.

    Deferring the roll-out of updates is a policy decision and the use of the word "prepare" may have been a bad choice.  The purpose of deferring the roll-out of updates is usually to give the IT department the opportunity to confirm that the update does not break something else.

    Unfortunately, there have been many recent updates that have done just that.  For example the 16.0.7369.#### updates have screwed up the rendering of UserForms.

    For that, Microsoft can be blamed.  However they cannot be blamed for the policy decisions of IT departments, other than for the fact that those departments have been given cause to implement a policy of deferring updates.

    I believe that you should, in the instance, retract your last sentence.

    I will not retract any part of my previous post. I understand policy decisions and the reasons of IT departments and have been a part of/made such decisions. As I said in my post, I have worked in many IT departments, have worked with computers since the '70s, and it was my profession before I retired and went back to school. Microsoft can be blamed for all of this mess; as many others have said, this "update" - FIX - would not have been necessary if they hadn't removed it in the first place.

    Furthermore, I did contact the IT department of my university, as directed by Microsoft, and was told that they did not request the "deferred channel," "we do not defer the application of updates," they are "already set to the fastest delivery of new feather updates," they are "not aware of anything they can do to speed that up," and "what is available is entirely managed by Microsoft themselves." I have read on this forum that others have also contacted their IT departments only to be told similar things and that it is "news to them" about their having control over this fix.

    Bottom line, Nicole and Microsoft are BS'ing and continuing to screw their faithful customers (I was using their products when they were still MS/DOS.) And for the record - I do know how to manually update my product and have done so on a weekly basis. I am still getting the LIE "You're up to date! The latest version of Office is installed on your computer." Build 16.0.6965.2105 is not the "latest version"! They've even programmed their lies into their product!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-28T19:25:03+00:00

    Amen brother!

    +100

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-28T19:56:26+00:00

    Amen brother!

    +100

    LOL, thanks. (And it's "sister," but you wouldn't have known that by my initials.)  ;)

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