Turn on autocorrect in NEW Outlook

Not only can I not use autocorrect to automatically insert commonly used symbols, e.g. typing *F and getting °F, but the spelling and grammar issue flags (red and blue wavy underlines) only match the words at a particular zoom level. When you zoom to make the text readable, the lines float off their words appearing in seemingly random places on the screen. Completely ridiculous!

I resisted New Outlook for a long time because of a lack of search folders. Now they have a very limited but usable version of that and I finally switched to New because of the better integration with To Do. Now I'm finding that the some of most basic features of the text editor are missing or broken. You can't insert symbols either - only emojis. Really?

Microsoft, you do realize that many of us are forced to use your software for work? Do you still care about office productivity?

I agree. It has to be on here. That is super annoying and makes things take a lot longer. At least in editor, you should be able to make any intials or words change to whatever you want. For example, I used to make b/c spell out because.

Dearest Microsoft,

Please get your **** together.

Whoever is responsible for changing the autocorrect feature needs to be fired--from a cannon into the sun.

did you not read the note? You are new to Outlook, so here is how it has been working since the mid 1850s:

Open a new message for to compose.

As you type, Outlook thoughtfully autocorrects based on Office autocorrect definitions.

So if you were to misspell a word or type in an autocorrect shortcut of your own definition, it would "auto correct" for you!

Lovely!

1. Why are you addressing an issue that was not asked about?
2. Fix the damn autocorrect.

Please.

Exactly - why did they even MESS with this? I have a decades long habit of not capitalizing "I" in emails and chat, and it always autocorrected immediately. No one seemed to be complaining about it before, why was it mucked with!