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
    2024-04-25T10:45:44+00:00

    Thanks for the hint Damien,

    I found the same, but 3 languages are not enough, and unfortunately it seems not to work anyway. For me it always is stuck on the language I (prioritize) move to the top of the list. If English is on top and I write German, then all German words get marked as wrong, and vice versa. Moving the Language that I'm currently writing to the top, solves the issue. But as soon as I write in an other language, I have to dig into the editor menu again.

    Seems like US organizations developing software are regularly forgetting, that outside the US there are actually people capable of communicating in more than one language.... 😏 It's not just Microsoft

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-24T14:39:15+00:00

    It should be reachable in non full screen mode, but anyway, it doesn't solve a lot of issues...

    OMG! Thank you! This worked perfectly and now my spell check is working in English as I required!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-24T08:14:01+00:00

    It should be reachable in non full screen mode, but anyway, it doesn't solve a lot of issues...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-22T16:49:52+00:00

    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?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-17T16:40:11+00:00

    You are a HERO, Damien T2!

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