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
    2024-10-01T23:23:16+00:00

    This is killing me too. One person said, "A couple times an hour" this interferes. I seem to be suffering through this several times AN EMAIL. I'm not sure why this wasn't tested. The option key is very important for quick navigation in macOS, just like the CTRL key is in Windows.

    Please tell us how we can turn this off.

    To reiterate... When holding down the Option key to navigate words quickly, Outlook interrupts your movement by putting unwanted shortcut letters underneath the Menu Options at the top of the screen (within Outlook, not Chrome/Web Browser Menus). To make things worse, you can't navigate out of this with just the keyboard. You have to stop what you're doing, grab the mouse, and click back into your email for the menu to disappear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-01T23:35:40+00:00

    Fortunately you can actually get out of it with the keyboard, either by pressed Option again or pressing Escape.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-02T01:25:42+00:00

    Fortunately you can actually get out of it with the keyboard, either by pressed Option again or pressing Escape.

    I suppose so, but it's still ridiculous. We need to be able to turn that off. It's completely unnecessary to have defaulted.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-02T01:54:27+00:00

    I will never want that behavior. It should be possible to turn off.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-02T16:21:17+00:00

    Yeah of course. I'm just saying you don't have to use the mouse to get rid of it. Still interrupts my typing constantly though.

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