Right click does not pop up Spell Check

[mahlerosa 0]

mahlerosa 0 last edited by

Is there a way to change this? All of a sudden when I am on outlook.com when I right click the text editor pops up not the spell check. But when I view outlook.com using Firefox it work. Small thing...driving me nuts.

[best-codes]

best-codes @mahlerosa 0 last edited by

@mahlerosa-0 Hmm… It works fine for me.

[gonefishin]

gonefishin @mahlerosa 0 last edited by

@mahlerosa-0 Are you still stuck with this problem?

I had/have exactly the same issue so went into Opera settings and turned off spell check hoping perhaps the old, turn it off and back on again trick, might work but once I'd turned it off the blooming button became greyed out/inactive and now I have no spell check function at all.

I've had two browser updates since and neither has fixed the issue. I've tried turning all extensions off but no joy there. Additionally Opera isn't playing nicely with Outlook in general, is unusable to log in at Paypal site and the same at Nectar site. I have to keep switching to other browsers. Hopefully there will soon be a major update to Opera which fixes the growing list of bugs.

[gonefishin]

gonefishin @gonefishin last edited by

@gonefishin If it helps anyone, I fixed my issue(s) as follows:

To get spell check switched on again, in Opera settings, I had to choose a language in the setting just above spell check. Am sure that was set already but it was blank and when I chose English it re-enabled the spell check button.

For Outlook, there's obviously a clash between it and Opera. Opera does it's red lines to highlight spelling errors but when you right click them you get an Outlook pop up with editing options rather than the normal context menu Opera displays it's spell corrections in.

Through trial and error I found if you switch your email from HTML format (Outlook's default) to Plain Text you can then interact correctly with Opera's spell check function - a right click of the red underlined spelling errors now brings up the normal context menu where you can select the correct spelling.

This is only a workaround of course as you'll have to keep switching between HTML and Plain Text formats but it's better than nothing for the time being.