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
    2016-07-20T13:00:28+00:00

    Thanks for explaining all of this--you know, if it were me, but then, i have a conscience, i don't know if the folks at microsoft have one--I would either discount the product or refund the money to those who shelled out big bucks for this inferior program. loved your explanation! maybe one day, microsoft will wake up and give a **** about the people who are keeping them housed, fed and clothed

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-25T15:04:03+00:00

    The English Style Options are now available to Windows Word and Outlook Insiders with Office build 16.0.7167.2015.

    If you’re not an Office Insider yet and want to become one, please sign-up here: https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider

    The update will also release to all Office for Windows subscription users in late August. Office for Mac subscription users are scheduled to receive the update later this year.

    Note that we're still working on further improving these options. Please let us know if you notice false flags (= incorrect flags/unexpected flags), missed flags or incorrect suggestions.

    To enable the feature do the following:

    In Word 2016:

    1. Go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Proofing"
    2. Select the second Writing Style "Grammar &  more" in the drop down in the section "When correcting spelling and grammar in Word" -  if this is greyed out, start a new document and go the Proofing options form there to enable it.

     ![](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=8aa93962-7cb3-40bb-b4a3-08bef7413564)

    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. Check the checkbox next to "Mark grammar errors as you type" in the "When correcting spelling in Outlook" section.
    4. Select the second Writing Style "Grammar & more" in the drop down in the section "When correcting spelling in Outlook" (like for Word).
      1. If this is greyed out, see step 1.

    ![](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=c970fa42-81ed-4e4c-b39b-2f5291512101)

    The following Options are included:

    • Complex Words*
    • Contractions*
    • Wordiness
    • Clichés
    • Informal Language
    • Double Negation
    • Jargon
    • Nominalizations
    • Passive Voice with Known Actor
    • Passive Voice with Unknown Actor (No Suggestions available)*
    • Words in Split infinitives (more than one)
    • Gender-Specific language
    • Words Expressing Uncertainty*
    • Slang
    • Oxford Comma
    • Punctuation with Quotes*
    • Spaces between Sentences*

    *These Options are disabled. To enable them go into the Grammar Settings (Settings... in the screenshot above) and check the checkbox next to the Options you want to enable.

    We've also included fixes for known Grammar bugs in this update.

    We're working on improving the Grammar Checker further and will release more Grammar Options in the coming months. Since the Grammar and Style Options are now fully ported to new technology, improvements can be released quicker going forward.

    Apologies again for the inconvenience the absence of this feature has caused.

    Thanks, Nicole

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-25T15:22:45+00:00

    Thanks for the news!  I might be able to incorporate into my fall semester.

    Question: I have a license for Office 2016 Pro--not the subscription.  Do you have an estimate for availability of this update for the box license?

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