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
    2016-12-22T22:54:45+00:00

    This only works for Office 365.  Apparently in the very small print, those that don't switch to Office 365 subscription will not get the latest features or upgrades.  They will continue to get security updates.  That's it.  I have Office 2016 Professional Plus and looking into this, it shows that they are weaning people away from this to make more money in a yearly subscription.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-22T21:49:56+00:00

    In my case (solved), Word said I had the most recent build version, yet I still didn't have the full grammar proofing options. However, I noticed my Office build was stuck to 16.0.6965.2115, not 16.0.7369.2024 or newer, even though my options were set to automatic update and though Word said my software was the most recent version.

    What solved it for me was to change the registry value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration\CDNBaseUrl from http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/7ffbc6bf-bc32-4f92-8982-f9dd17fd3114 (bad URL) to http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/492350f6-3a01-4f97-b9c0-c7c6ddf67d60 (good URL). Weird, but thanks to this guide for instructions: https://marckean.com/2016/02/29/office-365-office-2016-not-updating/. Apparently, Word was looking at the wrong URL to update.

    After changing this registry value, Word surprisingly started updating. Once it was done, I finally had those damn style proofing options! I can't believe I had been waiting all this time just because my Word didn't update correctly! I share in case that may help anybody else in that situation...

    Edit: I have a university-based Office 365 ProPlus subscription (thanks for pointing it out Dirtdiver79) and my current build is version 1611 (7571.2075).

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-14T07:58:34+00:00

    I have Word version 16.0.7571.7063 but still don't have the grammar and style tools (to check passive, etc.)!  I only have the option for "Grammar" not "Grammar & more" or anything else.  Therefore, I can only perform spell checks.  I am frustrated to lose functionality by upgrading from Office 2013 to Office 2016!

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