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
    2015-11-28T14:52:16+00:00

    You do realize that I rely on the grammar and style checker to do the heavy lifting for checking my student's work?  They can't write worth a damn.  You'd better be sure to have the 2 spaces after a full stop.  I learned typing on a manual typewriter and can't stand that one space ****. Same thing with the quotes.  Let's get this right so I don't have a bunch of crappy **** papers to grade.  I hate MS.  **** were you thinking?  Oh wait...tech nerds only need to know programming languages.  Worst grammarians ever must live at MS.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-11-28T19:01:25+00:00

    I'm just glad my kids didn't have you as a teacher. Your attitude stinks, and you have been rude to a Microsoft employee who is just trying to help. Do you have any idea how rare it is for an actual Microsoft employee to post in these forums? Please do not drive her away!

    (Oh, and if you learned typing on a manual typewriter--as did I, in 1958--you must surely be nearing retirement age, which is probably a good thing. Please don't teach your students your outdated methods.)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T04:43:24+00:00

    Nobody is being helpful here.  Linda is correct that this problem is way overdue a fix when for months (plural) we have asked to restore the capability that was taken away to the same working condition from before the upgrade.  Suzanne is correct that we need MS to listen to these forums or otherwise pay attention to their customers who have uninstalled Office 2016 to get these features.  Either way, this fix is long overdue and the folks at MS that communicate on this forum are of no help.  We need someone to relate this message and do something about restoring grammar and style checker to the way it worked before the upgrade.

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