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Hi,
I regularly send some emails in English and some in my native language - as most European business people do. In Outlook one language is always set as default spell checker language, but in the old Outlook I could always override this by setting spell checker individually for each message. It took some three clicks, but it was possible. In the new Outlook this option is gone (at least I could not find it) - only thing you can do now is to change default editor spell checking language! This is extremely unfortunate and a huge step back. Please return the option to switch spell checker language when composing the new message. Or even better make it more accessible than in the old Outlook.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Dear Kerry Chen,
since you have already received this valuable feedback, why cannot you as a Microsoft employee transfer this feedback to the Microsoft support yourself?
Sincerely,
Uliana
Unfortunately, that's not what it does in real life - previously, the spellchecker would recognize a language after a couple words typed. Here I wrote two paragraphs and it still believes it's English when it's not... It is frustrating that there is no option to guide the system in the right direction (how conceited must the developers be to believe their solution is always right in recognizing the language?).
I've found the Editor settings, but when I click "Manage spellcheck languages" the pop-up window appears behind the Editor Settings window, so I have no way to reach it! Any suggestions?
Once the languages have been selected in the Manage spellcheck languages, then the spellchecker will automatically use all the selected languages to spellcheck your email. It will give you suggestions in multiple languages.
Hi Damien
I am aware this is an old ticket, but the fact I am writing here also shows that there are still problems.
In my case, as other people have said, Outlook will only spellcheck for the top language.
Every time I write an email in another language, I need to open the settings and change the top language.
Since your solution appears to work for some users, is there something I can do to make Outlook "refresh" (or something) and it uses all 3 languages?
André
hi,
what if I need more than 3 different languages ?
on the old version it was possible to choose any language, on the new it is limited to 3.