MS Word 2016 Alt-Click on a word to open Research Bug

Anonymous
2018-01-28T21:55:02+00:00

Alt-Click is not working in Word 2016 but it still works in Outlook 2016 and all the other Office applications with that use the Research pane. It works in my old office 2007-2010 Word. How do I get it back.?

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Still no way to fix this bug.

Microsoft broke the feature with their new modern Translator feature and did not give any notice of it or a way to fix it and it still works in all the rest of the Office apps. There are some suggested workarounds for the bug but they don't work on my PC. There is no way I can see to add the Alt+Click shortcut and the Group Policy change did not remove new the modern Translator feature.

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Suggested workarounds, maybe someone else can get them to work.

If you still need or rely on the Alt+Click shortcut for Research pane, there are a few possible workarounds:

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-02-23T16:05:45+00:00

    Hi Tanquen1,

    Have you tried reinstalling Office?

    Regards,

    Tisky

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-21T21:08:32+00:00

    Hi Tanquen1,

    From your reply above, we noticed that the problem disappear temporarily for a while after you did the online repair. So we suggest you try reinstalling your Office applications then check whether the problem still persists.

    First, please follow the steps in this article to do a completely uninstall: Uninstall Office from a PC.

    Then go to portal to install Office 2016 again.

    Regards,

    Tisky

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-02-20T21:52:43+00:00

    Here you go.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-20T21:44:04+00:00

    Hi Tanquen1,

    For the further investigating, would you please provide the product information as shown below to us? You can check it in File > Account.

    Regards,

    Tisky

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-20T17:52:01+00:00

    Never mind, it not working again. Lasted about a day. What the heck! Still works in other Excel, Lookout and One Note.

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