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I am using the new outlook desktop app and this no longer adds capitals to a sentence even tho everything is turned on. I believe I'm not the first to raise this. can this please be fixed or can i be pointed in the direction of how to correct this.
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Even Office 98 had auto correct.
The options in "Editor" are merely highlighting potential spelling and grammatical issues and, not auto correcting even the simplest of things.
I love the new look but not having this feature is really frustrating and is, imo, a show stopper.
I agree. We live in a day and time, that we're use to everything capitalizing for us. The act of Shift + Letter, is disappearing. Sounds ridiculous, but that small action, frustrates me and slows down work flow. The editor, though robust, not as straightforward as it has been in the past.
Another feature that I've missed is when I double-click on an email, to open it, that making it "marked as read". That is not an option within the new Outlook.
Another frustrating feature - right click to edit an word - whether that be spell check, etc. That is now left click...why? Where else is that ever left click? Even Copy and Paste doesn't work properly??
I will continue to use the older version of Outlook.
I've also gone back to old Outlook because of this. I haven't had to manually capitalize the letter "I" or the beginning of a sentence in years.. it seems crazy that new Outlook dropped this functionality.
Hello Calah, this is available in Settings. Go to the upper right gear (Settings), click on View All Outlook Settings, select Mail on the left and Message Handling. There you have the Mark as read options.
Hope this helps.
Hi Kathy-
Do you have a timeline on when this will be updated? Perhaps someone can do a "ctrl + c" from the old code along with a "ctrl + v" into the new code to move this basic functionality over? Maybe we could even use Copilot to do it for us?
Thanks-
Ryan