Outlook web interface on a Mac: weird Option key behaviour

Anonymous
2024-09-16T19:22:17+00:00

Hi all,

I've suffered a new setback in my ongoing battle with Outlook's web interface.

As of the last week or two only, when I have Outlook open in my browser (Chrome on my Mac) and I press the option key, it seems to initiate some sort of keyboard navigation thing where it shows letters under Home, View, etc. that I can press to navigate those menus via the keyboard.

So my question is: How do I get rid of this behaviour?

I use option + delete and fn + option + delete very often while typing to delete word-by-word, and a couple times an hour now I accidentally tap just the option key which suddenly jumps into this navigation thing and stops my keyboard inputs in the message I'm typing until I hit escape to go back to normal.

This amounts to a not insubstantial hit to my email productivity.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-23T18:49:16+00:00

    Thanks for sharing this! I have never used a script for outlook before - how do I use it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-20T09:39:04+00:00

    What a nightmare - pls MS turn this off!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-23T16:58:21+00:00

    MS, provide a disable option for the love of God.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-06-26T15:26:40+00:00

    was there ever a solution on this? driving me insane. for months and months.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-07-18T20:15:19+00:00

    Same issue - months of this terrible UX. I rely on option+arrow and command+arrow to navigate inside every text editor and this is making outlook unusable for any meaningful message composition. Please do usability testing.

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