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
    2025-03-25T13:12:48+00:00

    I hope there is progress to report? I've been experiencing this issue for months and it is very frustrating. It's a significant factor in a meaningfully diminished user experience for Outlook Web on Mac.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-05T12:41:44+00:00

    Amir,

    Will you provide an update on the status of this bug?

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-22T07:37:50+00:00

    also annoyed with this. please fix this...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-17T19:11:00+00:00

    Obviously this comes with serious trade-offs, but FWIW the native Microsoft Outlook app does not have this bad option-key behavior. Since I also couldn't get the Outlook web app to work with browser notifications, I've switched to that.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-17T19:02:43+00:00

    We have to stay on them. They clearly aren't paying attention. This should be an easy fix. I mean, it was easy for them to screw it up so quickly.

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