how to apply spell check in new Outlook

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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
    2024-04-01T15:14:15+00:00

    Derek5, You might be right about moving on to a different email service that corrects problems presented by their customers.

    I'm not sure you were responding to my message but I was not "totally incorrect" in my statement. I did say that outlook will underline a misspelled word, but I want options to correct the spelling like in the "old" version of Mail and the new Outlook fails to do this.

    I will try out suggestions that are currently added here in the conversation.

    BTW, interestingly, I intentionally misspelled a word here in the REPLY box and the Right click to see if Spellcheck corrected it. It WORKED as it's suppose to! I then tried it out on my Outlook mail and spellcheck still did NOT work correctly....

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-31T17:53:35+00:00

    I have a brand new lap top came loaded with new outlook, the spell check worked for the first few weeks , now all it does is underline the miss spelt word in red , and right or left click does not bring up appropriate word suggestions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T16:52:52+00:00

    Yep, I was stunned by this when I switched to new Outlook in Jan ‘24 & have been following the post. This has been an issue for over a year & Microsoft has yet to address. Unbelievable!!!!!! Even this messaging has spellcheck!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T13:59:58+00:00

    when I right click or left click the new outlook no longer gives me spelling sugestions it just shows red underline word spelling is wrong.

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