Checking style in proofing in Word 2016

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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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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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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:

Go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Proofing"
If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
Click on “Settings”

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:

From a popped-out mail window, go to "File" -> "Options" -> "Mail". (Don't do this from the main Outlook window.)
Click on "Spelling and Autocorrect…" in the section "Compose messages". You'll be taken to the "Proofing" tab of the "Editor Options" dialog.
If the Writing Style is not "Grammar & more", please change to "Grammar & more" using the drop down.
Check the checkbox next to "Mark grammar errors as you type" in the "When correcting spelling in Outlook" section.

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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2016-02-07T23:08:24+00:00

...temporary gap in the proofing options....We are currently working hard...I expect these will be ready for release within the next few months.

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Although I can't commit to a timeline for reintroducing these options, your feedback is extremely helpful as we evaluate and prioritize which ones to target next. Please let me know which other style options you would like to see and we will consider to include them or if they are already on our list, bring them forward for implementation.

It's February now. Any word yet on when Style checking will return? It is super important. The whole "Grammer&Style" writing style still does not exist. Passive, wordiness, etc.

This software is missing all the features that are important to me.
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2016-02-04T00:31:24+00:00

February 3rd - option still not viable -- is there a target date when this can be re-added?

I attempted to degrade back to Office 2013 it would not activate and phone option was disabled.

College still goes on -

Thanks

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2016-01-24T19:56:23+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.)??

I found an official Microsoft procedure on the My Account page for reverting to Office 2013 after my Office 365 (with Office 2016) upgrade. It did not affect my 365 subscription or 1Tb OneDrive space. I originally had Office 2013 Home & Student installed (Windows 10 PC, had been upgraded from Windows 8). In October 2015 I bought the very inexpensive MS upgrade to full Office for PC (including Access, Outlook, etc.) and Office 365 with 1TB OneDrive space. The MS procedure to revert to Office 2013 worked nicely for me. I had to uninstall 2016 from my PC first, then from the My Account page install 2013. Read the instructions carefully. Use the 32-bit 2013 unless you are certain about compatibility issues using the 64-bit. It installed the FULL 2013 for me, not just my prior Home & Student version, which made sense because I had purchased the full Office 2016 with Office 365. When they get around to putting back the style checker I'll reinstall 2016 from the My Account page, which I expect to be as easy as it was to switch back to 2013. (Famous last words.)

See this MS Support page:

How do I reinstall Office 2013 after an Office 2016 upgrade?

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-do-I-reinstall-Office-2013-after-an-Office-2016-upgrade-a6ca92f4-cbb4-4609-9fdb-f8d3dd6812f3
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