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
    2016-11-02T20:08:15+00:00

    How do you know she was referring to the northern hemisphere winter? Given how long it took them to release a fix jut for 365, it may well be Winter in the antipodes when the rest of us see it?  !\[\](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=261efbb3-6c8b-48ac-aa92-e3b8b51e487f)

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-02T19:45:33+00:00

    Thanks for the response, Nicole.  You might have noticed that a common theme running through the complaints in this thread is that MS removes useful features of Word, which predictably makes users unhappy.  The problem with monopolies is that they no longer have to worry about users' needs.  I changed to Word many years ago because it was a powerful word processor, but as the years have gone by, MS have taken their brilliant creation and dumbed it down, removing flexibility and power.  If current trends continue, MS will soon be offering a program that has the same functionality as a type writer and proclaiming that it is the easiest version of Word ever released.  It would be wonderful if this trend could be reversed and users' needs put back into Word.

    As a small example of MS's self-centered corporate culture and outlook, may I point out that your use of the term "winter" seems to suggests that you/MS think that all Office 2016 users reside in the Northern hemisphere.  Your winter is not mine.  The world is a much bigger place than MS seems to realise and users' needs are far more diverse than MS appreciates.  It's time to see the big picture.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-28T05:04:29+00:00

    Thanks for the update however when will this update be available for those who traditional installed software?

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