Outlook PWA, how to change spellcheck back to right click

Dear VTThomas,

Good day.

After thorough research, testing from my end, and consulting, it’s been concluded that there is no setting in Outlook or Chrome that allows you to change the spellcheck feature back to right-click. This is a design choice made by the Outlook team to improve the user experience. However, you can still access the spellcheck feature by using the keyboard shortcut "F7" or by clicking on the "ABC" icon in the formatting toolbar.

We apologize if we are not able to meet your requirements; however, thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will surely raise your concerns to our Product Team and hopefully this can be included in future updates. In the meantime, we recommend using Outlook PWA in the Microsoft Edge browser, to avoid some issues and be supported by our team easily. For other concerns, please do not hesitate to add your post in the Microsoft Community Team. Thank you for choosing Microsoft as your partner in business.

Sincerely,   Eben Ezer Tres | Microsoft Community Moderator

Moving the spell check to the left click is the single most frustrating interface I have ever used. It has led me to move away from Outlook to Gmail. How can Microsoft defend a design change that makes people want to use different software? Makes no sense. Case in point: I just misspelled "sense" and used right click to fix it in this reply - which is something i cannot do in Outlook (Hotmail!). I understand people don't like change but this one is so ridiculous as to make me want to end my 30 year relationship with Hotmail altogether. I literally try not to open Outlook because of this one change.

And while i am at it why can't you automatically capitalize a single "I"? - see what i did there? (i hate this in Gmail too).

If you want me to have a better user experience forget the complicated AI stuff like "copilot" and do these simple things. Not interested in anything new you want me to try if you can't do the basics. Rarely comment on anything for any reason but the above issues are deal breakers for me. Don't overthink it.

Auto correct in Word is right click. Outlook and word should be the same. Does not make sense that all MS Office apps do not use same UI.

This is soooo fustrating. For decades, spell checking has always been right-click. This is a ridiculous change. Even in the desktop programs of Word, Outlook, etc. left-clicking a word brings up that stupid menu.

Anyway, I think I've found a solution that works for me. If you go to the Options tab, click on Editor, then Editor settings, you can turn off spelling and grammar checking. I've found that you need to turn off both spelling and grammar checking. This then seems to force the use of the built-in browser spell checking, and allows me to right click to change spelling. Might need to refresh the page. I'm using Microsoft Edge. Doesn't have grammar checking, but not really an issue for me.

Hope this helps others!

Who gets paid by Microsoft to make dumb decisions about user interface? If you are trying to frustrate your clients with dumb stressful gimmicks, that person needs a rise and a promotion. Microsoft is becoming a company that "complicates" simple stuff, to stress the clients. If this is the objective, congratulations ash.