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Outlook 365 spell check prevents manual editing of errors
gerardricardo01 I had the same issue but hadnt realised this is what the cause was.
I lost some important solicitors e-mails for this exact reason and only later found they had been archived. I'm grateful for pointint this out.
I type quite quickly but cant look at the screen at the same time so can go full sentances before looking up. In the meantime several options through letter "shortcuts" can create commands you arent even aware have happened.gerardricardo01I actually had the same problem for a while here (hadn't connected the issue to spellcheck, but it fits) but you can solve that by disabling keyboard shortcuts. With these on, pressing the "backspace" key archives the selected email. Like you would if you were, say, fixing a typo... Turning it off fixed that for me at least. Haven't experimented with the other shortcut options, but if you are OK with not having that functionality the option is available.
Jordan_Juengel Thank you for this suggestion - I am just replying to say this does not work for me.
I cannot overwrite the misspelled word. Once I hover or click into the misspelled word, all I get now are the spelling suggestions. If I 'esc' out of the editor, I am not in the word, and if I click or double click the misspelled word, I'm back at the suggestions. The only way to correct the word (if the suggestions aren't right) are as the OP said above : click before or after the word, and then backspace / delete the misspelled word and retype it.
This was not how it worked before. The word would be light-red highlighted and spelling suggestions would come up, but you could double click the word and it would change to blue and you could type over it.
So now my spell corrections go from half a second to 3-5 seconds. With a load of misspells (I tend to type quickly, fix later) this is killing my productivity. This only seems to be happening in Outlook in Office.com (Office 365).
Does anyone else have an answer here please?
Same issue for me and its driving me up the wall. Such a simple thing we used to be able to do ruined by an ill thought out feature poorly executed.
- Thank you Jordan, that seems to have made big difference for me being able to edit 1 misspelled letter in technical words that don't typically occur in the drop down box, without it playing havoc with the rest of my inbox. Huge help [for a problem that surely didn't need to have happened...]. Time will tell if i miss any of the other turned off shortcuts 🙂
