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
    2023-05-09T22:05:54+00:00

    Correct, there was a button to change back to current Outlook and MS mail. I don't recall any discussion of a time-limit, maybe it was there. Thing is, this is "beta" and there shouldn't be a time limit to revert back to the current version for that reason alone.... I mean this is just an app, not a full-blown OS rev.

    Oddly enough I've never jumped to a beta version of software before; after this experience, I'll never do it again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-11T16:55:50+00:00

    How can I add words/entries to the AutoCorrect function in the New Outlook? The old way to do it (File > Options > Mail etc.) no longer works because there's no longer a "File" tab. Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-15T10:20:12+00:00

    One more thing that might help out people here.

    The editor was still greyed out for me even after opening a new email, I had to manually disable spell check on windows setting for it to work.

    My problem was different, I'm bilingual and in the new outlook you can only have one language spell checked, otherwise every word will be with a red underline in the other language.

    Another solution for me, was after I was able to access the editor, I simply disabled the other language spell checker entirely.

    Also, another way to get access to the editor is right click on the word that is underlined and click editor, image here: https://pasteboard.co/i826IV8zv1zT.png

    If this is a problem for more people, I suggest using English spell checked by Grammarly desktop and the other language checked by Microsoft.

    Hopefully, Microsoft will support bilingual spell check in the future.

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