No spellcheck in new outlook Editor greyed out

New Outlook (Microsoft 365 Enterprise)

Production Version: 1.2024.625.600

Client Version: 20240628004.14

These steps do nothing to enable the editor features of the "New Outlook" the one that you turn on by clicking the slider at the top of Office 365 Outlook. I like this new version, attachments work so much smoother than in the previous version. However, while little red squiggly lines appear under misspelled words there is no right click fix, no F7 spellcheck, no menu option to do a grammar check.

I've had to resort at times to typing my message in Word and then copy paste into Outlook. No, I do not want to use the web browser version (that version pushes you to use One Drive for all attachments, some places I send attachments do not allow external One Drive access).

Please fix this properly.

For all of you trying to go to General -> Privacy and data -> the setting to enable does not exist.

Oh for the online version, it is a Premium Upgrade of $6.99 per month to add advanced grammar functionality.

In new Outlook.

Navigate to Settings > General > Privacy and Data > Privacy Settings.

Enable Turn on experiences that analyze your content.

This fixed it for me. No idea how that setting got changed or if its new or something.

This is super shady....because you have to forfeit your privacy to use Editor. But it worked. Editor now spell checks and is not greyed out in the New app.

Wonderful, many thanks, it works now.

Wonder why this was unchecked....

Wonderful 😊 Works!!!

Why is the Editor not working in New Outlook?

If the Editor is greyed, you can activate it going to settings/general/privacy and data/privacy/connected experiences and turn on experiences that analyze your content. Close and open again outlook and try with a new email. Editor should be on.

This worked for me. It also corrected the copy and paste functions of the mouse, which did not work before.