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Outlook - Spellcheck moved from right click to left click
Megan4123, completely agree with how horrible this is. But it's even worse for us heavy typers: the Menu Key on the keyboard (or the somewhat obtuse Shift+F10 for laptop users without a Menu Key) does the same as the right-click at the current keyboard cursor position. This means, I never need to take my hands off the keyboard to fix spelling errors with everything EXCEPT NEW OUTLOOK. In New Outlook, have to go to the mouse, and then weirdly Left Click.
UI Standard: Left-click is to select (or click if it's a button or hyperlink). Double-click performs the default action. Right-click brings up the list of options (action/verbs) for that current context. There is NO UI LOGIC for left-clicking on a misspelled word to fix it. Worse, this actually PREVENTS using left-click as intended: to position cursor and/or select the text in the word.
But to those criticizing Outlook, please be aware that as of mid-2024 this problem is limited to NEW Outlook and Web-based Outlook. Classic Desktop Outlook still supports the right-click standard just fine. I will not switch to New Outlook until MS fixes this failing.
Does anyone have a link to a User Voice feature request to get this fixed? I will gladly go and upvote it.