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
    2016-03-06T05:13:16+00:00

    Bravo..well said Rohn..we need ALL the grammar styles restored, not a select few with the attempt of appeasing some folks that are complaining..there are MANY MANY of us that have told others not to purchase this version as MS has rendered MS Word 2016/365 USELESS. We need less cosmetics as changes and more substance.. Who CARES about color of bars and look of the icons!! MS needs to contact a representative group of uses from multiple use sectors to see what is needed and then test properly. Every hear of votes, polls, focus groups???????

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-06T05:05:54+00:00

    This was just an example to explain why features sometimes disappear. There are many new features in Word 2016, please see here for example:

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-Word-2016-4219dfb5-23fc-4853-95aa-b13a674a6670 or the Word Blog here:

    https://blogs.office.com/word/

    Nicole, the propganda link you provided lists 7 whole "new" features, compared to the 50 config options one of the earlier replies documented as confirmed as removed.  Most of the new stuff is fluff. The "tell me" feature was something I was looking forward to, based on my long experience with the MS Labs "Search" tab/tool addon.  The implementation of "Tell Me" is less than 50% of the Search tool.  They "forgot" to include the learning part, displaying the path to the command, so that people would not be permanently addicted to the feature. <sigh>

    As to why no one commented on the missing functionality during the Beta test. Well, it was a beta test. People were not looking to find missing grammar checking and because if they were at all smart, they were not using it as their primary editing tool, therefore were not looking for that sort of help.

    The alarming part is that nowhere in any of the Office 2016 publicity material have I seen that the grammar checker has been replaced, resulting in almost total gutting of the grammar checking feature.  Does no one at MS think that this reduction in functionality would SIGNIFICANT to educators pushing out Office 365 Education and students using Office 365 University?

    Finally, I fervently hope that when you do get around to fixing the grammar checker this will not be an update/fix that will be limited to Office 365.  It MUST also be rolled out Office 2016 users who bought it expecting at least the same functionality they had in earlier versions.  This "fix" is not adding new features/ functionality that you can rationalize only providing to the subscription users.

    PS: could you ask them to make the Grammar settings dialog resizable. I (finally) have 4K monitor and would like to be able to resize the dialog to see all of the options without scrolling. (yes, I know about UserVoice. I've run out of votes ...)

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-03-06T05:02:48+00:00

    See that last paragraph of Dan Parish's post of February 28 in reply to Mingwong100's post of February 27 in the following thread

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-word/using-pen-as-mouse-instead-of-inking/9e046346-9010-450d-89e7-862a1bc765e5?page=5

    in which he says: "In addition, if you’d like to get these changes a week or two before they are officially released to everyone, please consider joining our Office Insidersprogram.  It’s a great way to preview the upcoming changes and help provide us with feedback early."

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