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
    2017-01-30T00:24:25+00:00

    Hi-- Continue to have the grammar and style problem.

    I just bought and downloaded the Home Use Program of MS Office Professional Plus 2016 (updated to Version 1612 Build 7668.2066) and the grammar check itself is not working (and of course "style" is not available). For example, I typed "John and me was going to the store." and neither of the two grammar issues were flagged.

    While I understand that there's KB3141451, when I download it, I receive the message that "there are no products affected by this package installed on this system.

    My base OS is W7 64 bit.

    I'd appreciate any help.

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  2. Charles Kenyon 170.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-01-28T17:58:13+00:00

    T.L.C. is reporting that the solution there was to go back to Office 2013. The stand-alone version of 2016 (non-subscription) was sold without this important feature and in the years since then, this has not been fixed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-27T14:19:50+00:00

    Our team is not involved with Office deployment and can't change how updates are distributed. The Office build you have, comes from the Deferred Channel and is the current version in that channel. By default, Office 365 ProPlus suite installation sets the update channel to Deferred Channel if you don't make any changes. To learn more about the various channels in the Office 365 suite, see Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus. To get the feature, your IT department will need to switch to the current channel. Please try the instructions here to do so.

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