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New Outlook Bug - Hitting backspace when the spellcheck popup opens deletes whole email
This is a highly disruptive bug. When I am typing, I, like everyone, make typos. Usually you just click on the wrong character to set the cursor there, hit backspace, and fix the type. The ...
I could not reproduce the same error with the Backspace key. However, I typed unavilbe instead of unavailable. The spellchecker opens with suggestions. When I tried to replace a character instead of selecting a suggested word, I typed the letter "E", which archived my message. I tried it with the letter N, and it opened a new message.
It appears to be picking up keyboard shortcuts.
Microsoft has confirmed the fix will be rolled out in the first week of August.
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/Teresa
#traccreations4e 7/25/2026
/Teresa
#traccreations4e 7/25/2026
- Thank you Teresa. Extremely frustrating. Any idea when the fix will be rolled out? It's 8/5 and it just happened again. I looked into the Archived folder and EEK. In seeking to 'help' MS is causing folks to lose and miss important stuff.
