Selecting text no longer working properly in Outlook Web App on MacOS

Really helpful, but now I cannot input CMD+Z to undo

OMG where are you I'm buying you a pint.

It works for me, and I just got finished (before seeing this post) of bashing my head against a Microsoft effigy trying to compose an email.

OK, a summary of where we're at, and a kind of fix for now:

MS mostly fixed the Opt-shift-arrow bug (apart from when you're in a list). This means the original tampermonkey scripts posted here are now mostly redundant.

However, a side-effect of their fix was that if you use Opt-shift at all, then the next time you press the Command key you lose editor focus and have to re-click (or hit tab a few times) to regain focus and carry on typing. Infuriating. I've reported a bug, but heard nothing.

HOWEVER: I just had the idea of adjusting the Tampermonkey script, because I realised that although we do want eg Command-B to be picked up by the editor, in fact it'll pick that up on pressing B rather than pressing Command… so we can just stop Command being pressed bubbling up, without breaking any functionality associated with it (AFAICT).

So try this - let me know if it works for you!

// ==UserScript==  // @name           Disable Command-down key in Outlook // @description    Stop Outlook losing focus on Command press. // @version        2024-05-27 // @run-at         document-start // @match          https://outlook.office.com/*  // @grant          none // ==/UserScript== (window.opera ? document.body : document).addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {

    if (e.metaKey && typeof(document.activeElement.role) !== 'undefined' && document.activeElement.role == 'textbox') {

        e.cancelBubble = true;

        e.stopImmediatePropagation();

    }

    return false;

}, !window.opera);

I think we need someone with a corporate IT department to put in a ticket. Folks with a personal account won’t have any leverage. I asked my company to do it and they told me to just use the desktop app, but hopefully someone else has better luck.