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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 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.
Two words : American arrogance!
There was definitely an update somewhere. I'm 100% confident that previously the Editor was grayed.
Anyway, MS took their time to re-implement something that so many of us find essential, but now that it's here I'm simply happy.
Hi Damien,
Thank you for your reply. This was an amazing find! I still find it a bad design to hide a feature so important deep down but now that there is a way, I'd be happy to switch back to the new outlook which I had retired for a year! :)
Best,
Arash