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Outlook - Spellcheck moved from right click to left click
Open Outlook.
Go to File > Options.
In the Outlook Options dialog box, select Mail.
Scroll down to the section labeled "Compose messages" and click on the Spelling and Autocorrect... button.
In the Editor Options dialog box, go to the Proofing section.
Uncheck the box that says "Enable proofing using left-click".
Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog boxes.
This should restore the spell-check option to right-click in Office 365 Outlook.
But this has no effect on New Outlook (not to be confused with Classic Outlook, which still supports right-click). New Outlook broke this and only supports left-click with no apparent way to fix. Worse, from my perspective, this also means that the menu key on the keyboard doesn't do anything. This means you MUST use the mouse to fix typos while you type, which seems insane to me. You should be able to correct a typo without taking your hands off the keyboard.
If you don't like this change or perhaps wish to prevent this spreading to the rest of Office, please upvote:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/a64c0d46-4414-ee11-a81c-000d3a7a48db
Sadly, this only has a few dozen upvotes. Maybe most users disagree with us and this doesn't bother them. Or, maybe it's just that it wasn't a problem until New Outlook started to take over in the past few weeks, so the number of votes doesn't truly reflect the magnitude of the problem. If the latter, then it will take a lot of us upvoting this to "catch up" to other issues, some of which have been bothering users for years and had a long time to collect upvotes.
The links don't work for me to do so, might be why there are so few upvotes?
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