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
    2016-07-28T15:43:08+00:00

    How do I get the update file to use offline?

    I am an insider but the update option does not show up under my account

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-28T16:05:32+00:00

    Hi

    As mentioned in my previous post, we're still working on further improving these options before we release them to all subscription users (including advertising it in the What's New section). We will update this thread as soon as we know the date on which the feature will be generally available.

    We're also working on improving the Grammar Checker and will release more Grammar & Style Options in the coming months. However, we won't bring back every single Option in previous Office versions, but instead we will add new ones with higher accuracy and based on modern style guidelines. Please refer to my post form July 25th for an overview of the Style Options included in the update. The available Grammar Options are as follows:

    Adjective Used Instead of Adverb

    Agreement Within Noun Phrases

    Capitalization

    Commonly Confused Words

    Comparative Use

    Hyphenation

    Incorrect Verb Form After Auxiliary

    Indefinite Article

    Possessive and Plural Forms

    Punctuation (includes Comma Use, Semicolon Use)

    Question Mark Missing

    Spacing

    Subject Verb Agreement

    Too Many Determiners

    Please let us know what Option(s) not currently available you would like to see added and why.

    Thank you.

    This is not the first time I have seen you use the phrase "release them to all subscriptionusers". 

    So you are treating this as a "new feature" and only releasing it to 365 subscribers.  That is flat out WRONG! And it is bad business to treat the one-time payment licenses as second class citizens, as well a illiterates.  These missing grammar features are a defect, a BUG ![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/93f13d2e-8bae-45fa-b99b-74b18556a3bd?platform=QnA)in development process that lead to the GA release. As such they should be made available to ALL licenses without prejudice.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-28T16:29:03+00:00

    This is not the first time I have seen you use the phrase "release them to all subscriptionusers". 

    So you are treating this as a "new feature" and only releasing it to 365 subscribers.  That is flat out WRONG! And it is bad business to treat the one-time payment licenses as second class citizens, as well a illiterates.  These missing grammar features are a defect, a BUG !\[\](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=9273164b-4f0c-4d8e-bb9d-3cb0a2aca6b3)in development process that lead to the GA release. As such they should be made available to ALL licenses without prejudice.

    Hear, hear, Rohn007!

    As mentioned in my previous post, we're still working on further improving these options before we release them to all subscription users (including advertising it in the What's New section). We will update this thread as soon as we know the date on which the feature will be generally available.

    We're also working on improving the Grammar Checker and will release more Grammar & Style Options in the coming months. However, we won't bring back every single Option in previous Office versions, but instead we will add new ones with higher accuracy and based on modern style guidelines. Please refer to my post form July 25th for an overview of the Style Options included in the update. The available Grammar Options are as follows:

    ...

    Please let us know what Option(s) not currently available you would like to see added and why.

    Please respond to what Rohn007 said above. We've bought multiple perpetual license versions of Office 2016 because we're not interested in the Office 365 subscription versions for now. Why shouldn't we and every other buyer like us not get the fix for this defect too? This is NOT a new feature no matter how Microsoft might try to spin it. Taking features we're used to away, expecting us to complain and beg and vote in order to bring them back and then acting as if the company is doing us a huge favour is NOT how you retain users.

    We'd like an official statement from Microsoft about whether it plans to add this feature back (and if so, a firm ETA) to perpetual license versions of Word 2016 or not, or whether it is planned only as an exclusive Office 365 feature. If the latter then this will categorically be the last version of Office we'll ever be paying for.

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