Unable to spell-check Outlook.com emails

vershner

In Outlook.com, Vivaldi seems unable to spell-check the body of an email. Spell-check works in the subject line, and works fine on other sites.
Basic spell-check is activated. I've tried deactivating and reactivating. I've tried clearing the cache.
I'm pretty sure this did work in the past.
Any ideas?

This is Vivaldi 3.4.2066.106

jcavicchi

@vershner I haven't noticed this issue, but something is definitely going on with Outlook.com. I have it pinned as a tab, and Vivaldi frequently freezes and has to be force-closed via the task manager when I switch to that tab.

I have filed a bug report but haven't heard anything back yet.

Pathduck

Spell-check seems to work fine here on the same stable release in a clean profile.

I get both the red underlines from Vivaldi and the Outlook spelling suggestions.

vershner

Well... I seem to have fixed it. I went into Settings - languages, and switched off Spell-check. Now it works!?

HectorB

@pathduck , what you are showing is provided my Microsoft/Outlook.
However Vivaldi is supposed to have its own spellchecker, isn't it?

I've been facing the same issue but on Linux. In my view this is a limitation of Outlook's native spellchecker, not sure if its premium version works better. I meant to say that it works fine for a single language like English. But it turns to a problem if more that one language is installed: Outlooks cannot spellcheck anything beyond English but it prevents Vivaldi from doing it's job either.

I'd be happy to disable the Outlook's spellchecker and rely on the one from Vivaldi. But so far I have given up to understand how to fix this.

Any ideas/inputs are welcome.

Tjips

This problem still persists in v5.3.2679.70.

Currently my workaround is (after disabling Outlook's spellcheck):

Type up the email,
Copy the contents into a note in the Notes panel, and
Check to see if Vivaldi picks up any mistakes.

It isn't ideal, but at least you'll maintain your reputation as an excellent speller...

pafflick

@Tjips That's a clever workaround! FWIW, the built-in browser's spell check doesn't work for me in MS Edge either. I'm afraid it's an issue that has to be addressed by Outlook's developers.

Manca77

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