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lexcyn
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May 05, 2025
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Microsoft Editor does not work

As the title states, if you have the Microsoft Editor enabled in Edge (this appears to be any version from Stable to even Canary), no spell or grammar check will work at all. If you enable the standa...
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Kelly_Y
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May 06, 2025

lexcyn Thanks for the report!  We've had some other customer feedback about this issue and the team is investigating.  I can follow up with any updates regarding the fix. 

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    stephaniemkirkpatrick
    Copper Contributor
    May 07, 2025

    Hi Kelly, Is there a workaround for this? Acknowledging the bug is great but is what can be done in the interim until a fix in pushed to the UI?  Thanks

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      MidwayTechnical
      Copper Contributor
      May 08, 2025

      Switch to "Basic" in the language settings then right click to spellcheck works again, just not as intuitively. We don't know if there is a GPO to do it but with the patch is coming in a week we're going to just let it be until it resolves itself.

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        MidwayTechnical
        Copper Contributor
        May 08, 2025

        That's great, thank you for the update!

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    stephaniemkirkpatrick
    Copper Contributor
    May 07, 2025

    Hi Kelly, Is there a workaround for this? Acknowledging the issue was great, but how do we move around it until an update to the software is pushed to the UI? Thanks

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      lexcyn
      Iron Contributor
      May 08, 2025

      For now you can turn it off and flip back to "basic" and you will at least get spelling correction back

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