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
    2015-12-15T11:01:50+00:00

    Hi J.C. Anderson

    Thanks a lot for the detailed list.

    The following style rules are in progress (we have to implement each rule from scratch and test it extensively, which takes time):

    • Passive voice detection
    • Split infinitives (if split by more than two words)
    • Oxford Comma
    • Punctuation inside and outside quotation marks
    • Contractions

    Note that "Subject Verb agreement" is already available in the Grammar Checker since this is a grammar rule and not part of style. The Grammar Checker is still available in Office 2016 and includes rules such as Comparative Use, Capitalization, Verb Form, Possessive Use, Subject Verb agreement etc.

    As Suzanne points out below, there is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with "and" or "but", this rule is outdated and we won't bring it back.

    We are also revising the "Fragments" rule as it fired frequently and didn't provide any rewrite suggestion and was considered unhelpful. Also, many fragments are intentional, especially in dialogues. Numbers and Sentence length are other rules we are considering for a second future update.

    We hope to release a first update to subscription users in early 2016.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T05:48:24+00:00

    What has frustrated me the most about the grammar checker from Word 2010 was it's lack of accurately finding "COMMA" errors. I was hoping that this would be better in 2016. Specifically; being able to identify main and subordinate clauses, as well as coordinating conjunctions. Then checking for commas between 2 main clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS=for, and, nor, but, or, yet, & so). Also, when a main clause is followed by a subordinate clause, there is no comma, but when a subordinate clause is followed by a main clause there is a comma. As you can tell, I'm in real need of help in this area. I know the rules, but checking them in a 100,000 + word document is very hard. A good grammar checker built into Word would help tremendously.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T18:33:23+00:00

    I wish I had known this before buying this version of Word

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