Outlook.office.com | Can't turn off auto converting underscores to italics formatting

Eben-Ezer Tres MSFT

This is also causing me major issues. I write many emails that have database table names in it and they all have underscore in the name e.g. dim_plm_step_relationship.

Every time I have to go back multiple times to take off the italics and put the underscores back in. Wasting a huge amount of time and ending up with me risking sending incorrect emails.

For me this is such an issue that I am seriously thinking of going back to the classic Outlook. Please raise this has a significant issue with your product team.

I tried your suggestion of turning off spelling check and it did not make any difference. the words are still auto-changed to remove the underscores and put the word in italics. I am rather disappointed in Microsoft for setting this as default and not giving a way to turn it off, there are many areas of industry that need to be able to use underscore and Asterix without it removing them and changing the text.

I just wanted to emphasize this post and agree that there needs to be a option to disable this type of auto-formatting. I am having the same issue with a need to type in database field names with underscores, which is standard practice. I moved to this new version to resolve a different problem which I have traded that problem for a new one.

Thanks!

I agree with the other people posting on this item. This alone makes new outlook completely unusable for me. Please do raise a ticket to get this resolved as a matter of urgency.

Hello,

I totally agree with this post. There's a strong need to disable the autoformatting from underscore to italic. I can hardly edit a mail with lots of underscores in the text.

Thank you!

Adding my voice to the chorus. I can't believe this change made it to a programmer's desk in the first place. Anyone who codes understands the need to type underscores in an email regularly and easily without having to battle this strange attempt at short hand.