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
    2016-09-15T01:54:10+00:00

    Hello Nicole,

    I have applied the most recent Office Updates and this feature is still missing and it seems as though there are fewer options available after the updates applied.  I am still unable to see Grammar and More option and when I choose Grammar / Settings all I get is a list with all check marks in the boxes. 

    Can you help me get this feature back? 

    Thank you, Tammy

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-09-11T03:23:02+00:00

    If you actually read Nicole's post, you will see that the updated style checker was already available to Insiders, and release to "all Office for Windows subscription users" was promised for "late August." Clearly this promise has not been fulfilled, nor have we received any guarantee that users with an Office 2016 perpetual license (as opposed to an Office 365 subscription) will receive the updated style checker.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-09-10T15:20:12+00:00

    I think the August date in Nicole's post related to the availability of the 2016 style checker for Beta testing by insiders.  If so, then obviously this essential component of Office 2016 will not be available to anyone else until the Beta testing is complete, which probably will take months.

    All those who bought, upgraded, or subscribe to Office 2016 deserve a workable style checker to use while waiting for the post-Beta release of the Windows 2016 style checker.

    I repeat my suggestion that Microsoft provide an app or add on of the Office 2013 style checker free to all Office 2016 owners, upgraders, and subscribers to use with Office 2016 until Microsoft completes Beta testing the Office 2016 style checker and releases it.

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