How to stop delete key from deleting the entire email in outlook?

Hey all,

This also started for me randomly in the middle of my day today. The only thing that worked (for now) was closing Outlook and restarting it. Original fix provided by MS did not work by changing the settings

Hello all - I believe I fixed it (albeit temporarily). I tried the "single key reading using space bar" suggestion and it did not work.

I just closed down Outlook and opened it again and it seemed to solve it.

I know it's a pretty rudimentary solution, but it worked for me

Good luck!

Same issue as everyone else, followed the steps. I can't tell you how many emails I accidentally deleted, literal, I don't know because I didn't realize what was happening. I thought I was loosing my mind. Please revert this "improvement". It is anything but!

When I press delete - like in any other Microsoft tool, i mean delete the immediate text. But for some reason, Outlook started to use this key to delete e-mail. Where can I swich it off?

It´s really frustrating, I really wonder how people at Microsoft think. For example, they added annoying function where I have to first confirm editing a Word file before I start editing it (WHY?). But now I can accidentally delete an entire e-mail by a very predictable action. WHY! Just stop changing things for worse. Everytime I reinstall my windows, I need to go through the ordeal of swiching all these "bright ideas" off.

"I really wonder how people at Microsoft think."
"Just stop changing things for worse."

You have taken these two statements from my mind. A few Microsoft changes make things better, but many of their changes make things worse and frustrate productivity. I am still wondering how Microsoft developers think!

I tried the steps but the problem persists - why would this suddenly start to happen when it worked perfectly before? I did not change any settings.