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
    2024-01-30T16:29:03+00:00

    Hi Jovaras,

    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.

    If you just want to get suggestions in one specific language, I guess you can delete (temporarily) the other languages in the Manage spellcheck languages, then add then back once you're done.

    Damien

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T17:46:13+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-07T09:13:42+00:00

    My editor button is greyed out. Apparently it's because I have the online version

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-08T10:29:23+00:00

    That makes this email service quite unuseful

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T22:17:21+00:00

    Same for me...

    What's this story about the online version? I got the new Outlook for Windows automatically by clicking on a banner in the old Outlook.

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