new Outlook - change mail spell checker language?

Anonymous
2023-05-18T08:48:32+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-28T13:30:45+00:00

    This is really frustrating.

    I'm using this new Outlook for just a couple of hours and decided to leave it for good!

    I can't understand such a step back.

    In the real world, almost nobody uses a single language.

    It feels like Microsoft developers didn't care to test their products the way their customers use it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-15T07:39:17+00:00

    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

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-09T15:42:31+00:00

    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?).

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-05T06:46:52+00:00

    Thanks this is working! - Co-Pilot didn't know

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-30T16:20:10+00:00

    Thanks. To add: if the editor button is greyed out in the desktop version, gotta do it first in the web version for some reason.

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