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Megan4123
Aug 28, 2020Brass Contributor
Outlook - Spellcheck moved from right click to left click
In the last week, the spell check option in my Office 365 Outlook has changed from the right click to the left click. I am assuming this was some kind of update to Office. The change hasn't occurred ...
SeeKay
Oct 27, 2020Copper Contributor
This is driving me crazy too.
I write mails in 3 different languages, and it was so easy to right click, select my language and then correct things. Especially when i write mails that has more than just one language in the same email.
This new left click system is utterly... sorry for the bad language... moronic.
It makes no sense at all, plus every time i want to edit a word by clicking on it with left click, well what do you know the "correction" menu opens and hides all the other words around. The hiding other words is actually not the problem. The fact that a menu opens when i didn't ask for it is what is annoying me!
Now i'm wasting time writing my mails in a text document, correcting them with the NORMAL right click like it has been for the past 10 year at least, and then copy pasting it into my email to then send it.
And then i waste time trying to figure out how to disable it, get annoyed because of course settings are hidden behind 3 different menus, can't fix it. So i google it to then figure out that i can either disable it completely and have no correction AT ALL, or have the illogical lame one that you guys have made with left click.
But hey, here on this site i can right click on words, select my language and correct them accordingly.
Why change it in one place of your site but not the other?
The more and more i use outlook, the more and more i start to think that you guys actually have nothing to do. Nothing to fix, no new good ideas that improve usability (probably because it was perfectly fine as it was before) so you just start making up things to make and change for no reason other than having something to do and therefore keeping your job.
You make a broken feature, now you have to fix it. Work. Keep your paycheck.
You don't make broken features, nothing to fix. No work. Find a new job.
Whoever is working for you guys and getting a big paycheck for these types of ideas should be fired because they clearly have no idea what they are doing (other than making bad decisions and keep their job to find new ideas to fix their bad decision, with new bad decisions). Hire me, i'll do it for free. Actually it's pretty simple, outlook, roll back to how you were 5 years ago. All the new fancy features that are useless and broken and just in the way, weren't there back then.
And great. Now i just spent 10 mins writing this. Such a waste of time, so frustrating, so **bleep** illogical! Stop it damnit!
Edit: Funny, i can write damnit, but if you remove the it at the end, the word gets "bleeped" out. Hahaha. 10/10 microsoft.
SeeKay
May 11, 2022Copper Contributor
Well, this was interesting.
For a few days i was able to use my "right click" menu on words and change the language etc... But now, i can't. Only the left click menu that opens (annoyingly when i just want to click on a work to delete or add one letter "helo" to "hello" take less time to click and add an L rather than having this menu).
I hope i figure out how to get the right click menu working again and i will share it. And hope that they don't fix the "bug" that allows us to not use their broken menu... lol.
Edit: i actually have a blank "rich text document" on my desktop where i write my emails, correct them, and copy paste them into outlook and then send them, due to this annoying useless menu. True story.