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

Anonymous
2024-02-18T13:18:35+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-11T23:29:46+00:00

    Restarting outlook seemed to help resolve the issue for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-12T06:57:13+00:00

    I think you can assume that for many of us that is not the case. The problem has persisted for a very long time, during which we've had numerous Outlook restarts/reboots/system updates and it still persists.

    It is one of the most egregious examples of atrocious human-computer interface 'features' that I've ever seen. Certainly 'seen but not fixed' and nobody at MS seeming to care about it

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-29T10:51:58+00:00

    For me it was doing this because 'num lock' was also turned on.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-29T12:27:53+00:00

    Tested: For me it does not depend on the 'num lock' state

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-05-07T08:15:58+00:00

    I face the problem in Teams meetings. When sharing the screen and using the delete last character key in the search bar, instead of erasing the last character typed, it deletes the selected mail in my mailbox. Very frustrating bug!

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