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
    2024-07-09T15:42:31+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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  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
    2024-08-28T13:30:45+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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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-12T10:58:38+00:00

    As a product manager, I understand the strive to making the product simpler and remove unnecessary features. The old outlook admitably is cluttered with too many features. They have my full support there.

    Yet, I believe it was a short sighted decision to remove the multi-language spell checking. It shows they don't have a good understanding of ways of working in our cultures. Unlike in US, in Europe, we live in a continent with many languages and people are often multi-lingual or have learned multiple languages.

    When I compose emails in any language other than the default language, I end up having red line under most of the text of the email which is disturbing. Additionally, the spell check is almost mandatory when I write email in a language which is not my native language.

    I strongly recommend outlook team to reconsider adding multi-language spelling check. Specially now a days using AI, it should be easy to detect the language and automatically spell check the correct language.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-20T08:30:53+00:00

    Thanks

    What I was looking for! :-)

    Stupid place you have to edit that option, but it works.

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