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Office 365 subscribers get ‘Grammar & More’. ‘Perpetual Licence’ Word 2016 has the ‘Grammar & Style’ label. Or go to Options | Proofing Tools | Writing Style and look for a ‘Grammar & Style’ or ‘Grammar & More’ option. The blue squiggly lines in your text are a dead giveaway. Customers rightly complained because Grammar has been part of Word for years and the ‘one-time’ purchasers of Office 2016 had every reason to expect it. It took until January 2017 for Microsoft to relent.Īnyone who paid a one-time price for Office 2016/Windows should have also been updated but can grab a separate patch from here. It seems Microsoft tried to argue that this was a ‘new’ feature for Office 2016 which non-subscribers don’t get. 2024 or later (for Office 365) will have the Grammar and Style feature.īut the ‘perpetual licence’ customers were left out. Office 365 subscribers with a ‘Click to Run’ install of Office 2016 got their Grammar and Style checking back in October 2016.

They quietly dropped the feature with it’s blue squiggly lines until the feature was done.

Making an in-house version of Grammar/Style turned out to be a lot harder than Microsoft expected and they could not make the deadline for the release of Office 2016/Windows. Redmond gets more control over the features of grammar/style checking.īut there was a catch. Less reliance on external developers and lower costs in the longer term from reduced licencing fees. Instead of relying on external software, the company created their own in-house grammar check engine. The long-standing Grammar system was completely overhauled for Office 2016/Windows. The Grammar and Style checks also return to Outlook, which uses Word as the email editor. This important improvement hasn’t had the usual Redmond hype, presumably because it’s more embarrassing for Microsoft to admit the problem. It’s available for all Word 2016 for Windows users including the ‘perpetual licence’ users who normally don’t get ‘new’ features. Microsoft has restored an important missing part of Word 2016 for Windows the Grammar and Style checking!