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
    2016-03-28T00:13:05+00:00

    So the real question is why was it not finished before 2016 was released.  Why was 2016 released at all? How could a "world class" word processor be released to world class businesses and world class educational institutions (let alone the rest of us plebians) without a FULLY functional grammar subsystem.

    They have a monopoly, so they could, in a certain wealthy politician's words,

    "Shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters."

    Did some digging for other places to get info updates.  Here are some places we might see official announcements when the "start of the year" gets here.

    MS TechNet Office Updates Blog - Posts from the MS Office Sustained Engineering Team - News about security updates, public updates, service packs and product lifecycle from the Microsoft Office sustained Engineering team.  The monthly title headings are links to the full posts.

    MS OFFICE BLOGS - What I like most about this is that it gives an RSS feed, making it easy to monitor postings (I get my RSS by email).  But they also announce blog posts in their Facebook and Twitter feeds.  This link includes the filters I applied.  You can adjust by deleting/adding to the filters, then save them if you are logged in to an MS account.

    How do I get the newest features in Office 2016 for Office 365?

    What's new and improved in Office 2016

    What's New and Improved in Office 2016 for Office 365 - note that this page provides monthly updates.

    Be an Office Insider - NOT CLEAR TO ME whether this is only for Office 365 subscribers.  Instructions refer only to subscribers, but other info on the page says: "As a subscription user, you will get early builds with new features, bug fixes, security updates, and performance enhancements.

    As a non-subscription user, you will get early bug fixes, security updates, and performance enhancements." …  "Join Office Insider as a subscriber and get first access to the latest Office features and experiences. … We’ve asked Office 365 Home, Personal, and University subscribers to help make the next Office even better by becoming an Office Insider. It’s easy to join, just install the Office Insider build and get early access to the new Office innovations. Tell us what you think, your feedback will make Office great for users worldwide. Office Insider is available on Windows (desktop and mobile), Mac and Android."

    I'm considering this, but I'd have to give up style checking to participate!  I'd have to go back to the "upgrade" from 2013 to 2016.

    OFFICE INSIDER TWITTER FEED - Frequent new feature announcements.  Assuming style checking will go to Insiders first, maybe it will be announced there.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-27T20:03:39+00:00

    We're going on 7 months.  WE WANT DEFINITIVE ANSWERS!!

    Actually what we need is the fix, we've had enough "MS answers".

    I know software development, I've been in it for a long time. The time span under question is NOT "7 months", it is more like 4 or 5 years!  It has been 3.25 years since 2013 was released.  Initial design on "2016" started well before that release date, at least a year, probably more.  A fundamental decision like ripping out the whole grammar checking subsystem and rebuilding it from scratch would be made at the start of the 2016 design process. 

    So the real question is why was it not finished before 2016 was released.  Why was 2016 released at all? How could a "world class" word processor be released to world class businesses and world class educational institutions (let alone the rest of us plebians) without a FULLY functional grammar subsystem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-27T15:18:51+00:00

    And therein lies the problem!!!

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