I don't know if there is a reason that this is for Mac, and whether it would be the same in windows. I couldn't find any of those pages on MS sites where people are complaining about this. this opens the spell checker, so you have to move the cursor over to there, then click on the spelling option you want, then click on the Change button, then move the cursor back to where you were.Īlmost as good as a right click and a left click under the old system.ĭoes MS have a department called the 'What shall we mess with next department'?īTW, where did you find that registry hack. All you have to do is right click on the misspelt word, then click on 'see more' at the bottom of the menu (see above). I did look some more, encouraged by your having found at least something on this, and discovered that the context menu does give the old style list. looks like I'll have to wait until winter- yours, rather than mine, i hope. I've looked at all your links and things - still no help.
Very kind of you to spend that amount of time on this. Then I get to see the same window that used to be always easily available.Thanks, plodr. Now, i have to click the X, go down to the bottom of the screen, double click on the OUTBOX which appears WAY DOWN THERE. I used to be able to just click on the OUTBOX and watch everything as different emails went out. Why would anyone HIDE the OUTBOX? I have to open up the “PROGRESS” window, so I can stop an email by clicking on the tiny tiny X in the right side. MicroSoft always has been idiotic and it isn’t getting any better.
Otherwise, EDIT>SPELLING & GRAMMAR will show a faded “Correct Spelling Automatically” and YOU CAN’T CHANGE IT. If you ever want to change this setting you have to start a new email, save that email, quit the program and start it up again. Any new emails will always show “Check Spelling While Typing” when you go to EDIT>SPELLING & GRAMMAR. Then save the email and quit the program and restart. You can uncheck “Correct Spelling Automatically” and check “Check Spelling While Typing”. Put the cursor in the body of this new email. They had to remove these options on purpose to make it such a crappy program. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I truly believe Microsoft intentionally created a bad program for Macintosh users. Even when ‘sort by date’ is clicked it still doesn’t do it you have to make it sort by date by clicking the option twice. It won’t show email addresses onscreen until you click directly on the email and tell it to show the contact so it’s difficult and frustrating to figure out the email address of a contact. AND it can’t even properly sort or find emails. They have disabled the ‘home’ and ‘end’ keys, the program re-formats text into different fonts and sizes randomly, you can’t separate emails with commas and if you did do so it formats all the email addresses into one long string which you cannot separate, and today when I tried typing a time into the email message it used the colon and then later an underscore as some sort of hotkey that made it so I could not continue typing but had to click back on the message box. This version of Outlook is the single worst word processing program I have ever used and I have been using Microsoft word processing programs for over 20 years.