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
    2016-07-20T02:01:44+00:00

    It is most inconvenient to not be able to perform proper grammar checks. The program is useless the way that it is if you are going to use it for school.  I do not understand why Microsoft decided to launch this without this feature. Bad move.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-20T04:35:37+00:00

    I know and i am just sick and tired of this.I have complained for a while now and microsoft does nothing to fix this.I don't understand how the previous versions had a better grammar feature and their "new and improved" version that costs a whole lot more reverted to the 1980s in quality.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-20T05:10:48+00:00

    The excuse I've seen was that they were in the process of recreating the tool that does the grammar checking.  But it was not complete in time.  Someone kept saying, "no problem, it is almost there, trust me". Instead of doing the responsible thing, delaying rolling out this "improvement" until it was complete and tested they just let the partial implementation stand.   "Who would notice... "  Nobody important, just a few students, teachers and writers. No one important.

    The reason it happened is a result of the software development process. Often you think the job is almost done, but then you keep finding new problems and new wrinkles, so the job just drags on and on and on ...

    My guess is that they are paying to license this tool and wanted to cut the cost by making their own tool.

    But they found out that translating grammar rules into program code was not as simple as the "genius" <sarcasm> penny pinching manager or bean counter who proposed the idea thought it would be. Grammar rules in English are not binary! The could be used as the pre-computer example of "spaghetti code"!

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