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
    2016-04-26T14:07:30+00:00

    Hi all

    Apologies for the delay. The development of the first set of the English style rules is now completed and we are currently going through several rounds of testing and improvements. We are aiming to have a final version ready soon to be used in Microsoft internally before we can release it to external customers. I will update this thread once we know which Office build will include the update. How quickly you will get the update depends on what type of Office subscription you have (home vs. business) and also how quickly the build will get rolled out to all subscription customers.

    Thank you!

    I work for a federal agency, and this has come up recently to be quite an issue. Please let us know when this is going to be resolved. It's long overdue already. What happened to a few months? I am hesitant on releasing this to our user community.

    Why in the world would you remove features instead of augmenting or adding new ones? Someone dropped the ball with this one...

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-24T21:26:12+00:00

    When I grade over 100 graduate school papers a week plus review dissertations, having grammar checking ability is VERY helpful!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-24T20:01:13+00:00

    I don't know how it was previously provisioned, if all of it was a MS product or if they licensed some of the proofing elements from others. 'I don't know' is a key phrase, because it is hard for me to criticise when I don't have all the facts.

    MS knows people would like a viable style proofer. When 2013 was released, many disliked the heavenly white design that only offered grey tinting as an alternative. MS did in fact listen and gave us good options.

    Any writer, and I like to think I'm one, should be able to stand without such a technical crutch for a time, just as a calculator is great to have, but it helps to know how to do the math without one in a pinch.

    Yes, the proofing system is great to have, but I'll stand on my patience and preference for MS to get it right.

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