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I recently started using Outlook PWA with Chrome and the right click spellcheck is disabled, forcing me to use left click to access spellcheck. This is very unintuitive, all applications use right click for spellcheck. I am deeply confused by this interface choice, the right click menu in Outlook is useless now, the only options being copy & paste and emojis for some reason?
Is there a setting in Outlook OR an chrome extension OR an Outlook Add-in that will put my spell check back on the right click where it is expected?
Configuring preferences and options in Outlook on the web for business
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I've just started using the new Outlook and am similarly frustrated and confused by the change of right click not having the spell check.. should be right click - consistent & intuitive
I gave up and went back to old outlook. I kept from habit, which with word will never die, using the wrong mouse buttons for spell check.
An entire class of government (defense) contract workers are forbidden by federal law from using could/web-based services for national security reasons.
Offline, air-gapped systems are required.
As I am one of them, along with tens-of-thousands (if not far more) others, that would necessitate abandoning the use of these products.
The vast majority of products and services that are consumed by the DoD are made by independent contractors, and not large corporations.
If this is the pending policy, it will aggressively harm small businesses in the US.
I think I have worked this out. MS keep saying this is an enhancement and ignoring the obvious that it is not. I don't believe they are stupid, so the conclusion must be that it is intentional to make desktop apps harder to use - forcing use of real time connected web versions. There's lots of profit generating reasons to do this, but announcing phasing out of desktop apps would be very very unpopular.. so the plan is to do it like this: introduce seemingly minor irritating faults and when users complain, advise them to use the web app. Expect more problems soon. I am switching to an open office email app which my work says is ok. I think the same is happening in Excel.. it is getting very buggy and slow and MS do not address any of the reports about it.
Really don't like this. Just end up fighting it. I just wrote fuolicate instead of duplicate through a typo. Spell check failed to correct it which is fine its pretty awful. But I can't then click into the word to delete the mistyped letters without triggering the spell check!
You have to click into the word in front, and arrow your way back to make changes which just adds time. It just feels more cumbersome than using the right click for this. Having the right click for spelling and left for clicking into the word gives me the choice to correct my work. Merging these both into the left click more often than not creates a scenario where I have to work around the tools meant to 'Help'