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
    2025-07-04T06:38:14+00:00

    For absolutely no reason Outlook started deleting entire emails whenever I was writing one and used the "delete" button to delete a character. This doesn't happen in any other program. It's a serious bug and now I see that Microsoft hasn't fixed it despite it being reported for more than a year. Maybe they need to hire some actual staff rather than AI-code everything.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-20T13:30:33+00:00

    This just started with me. Very frustrating. Suggested solution did not work.

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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
    2025-03-19T14:43:45+00:00

    this suggestion does not work

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-25T12:35:14+00:00

    My issue has been gone but I do not know how. I did not do anything.

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