how to apply spell check in new Outlook

Anonymous
2023-04-18T11:39:50+00:00

New Outlook version: how to apply spell check

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Anonymous
2023-05-04T18:41:11+00:00

I was having an issue figuring out how the spell check worked. My coworker said when you are in a New Message window, and the Message tab, at the top far right of the ribbon, click the "..." and go down to Editor, and then Editor Settings.

At first, when I tried this, Editor was greyed out, but it might have been because I was already in the middle of composing an email. When I opened a new message I was able to get to the Editor Settings.

All the settings were already enabled, but it seemed I had to open the Editor settings at least once for it to "activate" Now spell check works in my Outlook.

Right-clicking a misspelled word won't work. You have to left-click the word to see the spell-check suggestions.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-06T08:28:10+00:00

    DO MICROSOFT GURUS READ ANY OF THIS?

    The product is so under-developed with basic functionality that should be being corrected!

    IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-06T02:04:59+00:00

    I am extremely disappointed in the new Outlook. The right click spell check functionality is gone, the software doesn't automatically capitalize the first letter in a word when drafting an email, the thesaurus is gone... these are basic functions which should have been worked through before this product was launched.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-23T13:30:07+00:00

    Cannot right click to answer spelling/grammar issues. It takes me to fonts and colors, which is not what I want. Bring back the right click to address spelling/grammar issues please. This is very inconvenient.

    Also when there is an attachment, I can't save as, this is also slowing me down when working, we deal with a lot of attachments.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T21:58:52+00:00

    It diffinatly wasn't an improvement. I switched back to the old outlook.

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