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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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I am experiencing the same issue and was unable to resolve it. Today, I acquired a new computer and decided to attempt it again using the new Outlook. All of a sudden, it works just like it does in the classic Outlook. I'm happy it does but can figure out how or why.
Hi,
I typically write in 3 languages, so this means it'll check each word for the three as you explain, meaning each word will have a red line as it's bound to be wrong in at least one of the 3.
I don't see what the point of this feature is then?
Anyway, the suggestions it gave were only the English ones (which is set as my priority language), none showed in the two other languages.
So now, I have to first write my message in another application such as Word to then copy / paste it into my email. C'mon, we're 2025, no?
Greetings,
Olivier
These decisions are dumb.
I totally agree, MSFT what have you done ? Shame on you, this is unbelievable, why don't you ask people what they want ? why don't you do some sore of a poll ? Also if you have a feature working how can you remove that feature in next release ? You are meant to improve software and add features not remove them come on.....
This is completely not user friendly and i wonder why people use the New Outlook. I personally use it because i was forced to use it as my Gmail is not supported by the old Outlook anymore. This is very sad and i am not impressed by this new Outlook.