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
    2025-02-16T19:16:36+00:00

    These decisions are dumb.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-22T15:06:37+00:00

    Hi,

    I typically write in 3 languages, so this means it'll check each word for the three as you explain, meaning each word will have a red line as it's bound to be wrong in at least one of the 3.

    I don't see what the point of this feature is then?

    Anyway, the suggestions it gave were only the English ones (which is set as my priority language), none showed in the two other languages.

    So now, I have to first write my message in another application such as Word to then copy / paste it into my email. C'mon, we're 2025, no?

    Greetings,

    Olivier

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-26T19:20:18+00:00

    I am experiencing the same issue and was unable to resolve it. Today, I acquired a new computer and decided to attempt it again using the new Outlook. All of a sudden, it works just like it does in the classic Outlook. I'm happy it does but can figure out how or why.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T23:17:42+00:00

    140 words and 873 characters [including space] worth of an excuse to a significant issue.
    For me as well work in bilingual environment is curial and either copying the email contents to a word document or switching to a different default language is unconceivable in modern AI possibilities.

    Looking forward to renewal of renewal of previous functionality regarding Proofing language.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-19T12:18:33+00:00

    Thank you Damien

    Thsi works but it is far to time consuming comparing it to old Outlook and other MS office products

    Regards

    Haukur

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