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Brass Contributor

Aug 28, 2020

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 ...

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Copper Contributor

Jul 18, 2024

This is the worst design decision I've seen in a long time. This stupid feature has caused me to delete so many emails without even realizing. If the focus is on an email in the list (not sure how it stays there when I'm typing in to the email window) then I click in a word to correct it, press the backspace button to manually correct it and bam, email is deleted. I've reverted back to old outlook until this BUG is resolved. I call it a bug because no one would willingly make such a horrible design choice.

GraniteStateColin
Iron Contributor
Oct 07, 2024
DrenCrossley, is the link to upvote this fix broken for you too? It looks like Microsoft removed that link.

Or did they fix this? It's still not working for me in New Outlook, but maybe it is for some, or it's been added as an option and I just don't know how to enable it?

If this is still a problem, the next most up-voted version of this I can find is this one, with a mere 15 upvotes at the time of this post: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/5d905769-b166-ee11-a81c-0022484e5453
GraniteStateColin
Iron Contributor
Aug 20, 2024
DrenCrossley,
Found a link to a request for this feature. Let's upvote it. Right now, it actually doesn't have that many votes, so perhaps those of us who can't believe MS would break a standard UI feature that's been there for at least two decades and still remains in all the other Office and Windows apps are in the minority. But let's upvote it and hopefully we'll at least get this added as an option.

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/a64c0d46-4414-ee11-a81c-000d3a7a48db

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