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
    2015-11-05T02:55:27+00:00

    Passive voice identification, please

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-04T19:38:54+00:00

    Thanks Roberta. I have installed this version of Office on a test machine, but unfortunately still don't get those grammar flags for the two sentences you provided.  

    Can you please check something else for me? What is the version of the English Grammar Checker dll and lex files on your machine?

    • If you have an Office subscription you can find the file "msgr8en.dll" in this folder on your machine:
      • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\PROOF\1033
    • If you have a perpetual Office version, the file should be here:
      • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\PROOF\1033
    • If you have a 32bit version of Office the path will start with C:\Program Files (x86)... instead.

    Please right-click on "msgr8en.dll" and choose Properties, then the Details tab. There you will see the File Version information. It should be the same as the Office version.

    • The "msgr8en.lex" file can be found here for the Office subscription version:
      • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\PROOF
      • Or here for the perpetual version: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\PROOF

    Please right-click on "msgr8en.lex" and choose Properties, then the Details tab. It won't have a file version, but a Date Created information, which is helpful to us.

    Lastly, what does it say in the Proofing Pane window on the right in the Word document, when you right click on the blue grammar squiggle on "It's" and on "mention" and then choose "Grammar" in the drop down menu?

    I'm sorry for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-03T17:54:31+00:00

    It's Ver. 16.0.6001.1034.  The next time I get something like that I'll take a snapshot of it for you.

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