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How to Disable Predictive Text Feature When Composing Emails in Microsoft Outlook Mail?

Anonymous
2020-07-13T19:15:52+00:00

Hi,

Just recently while I've been making emails in outlook I'll get some grey text that appears in front of the characters I've actually typed out and there is a little tab key icon at the end of the greyed text that completes the sentence with the greyed out suggested text included if I press tab. I was wondering how to turn off this predictive text feature when typing? I think an odd sign-out situation occurred recently where my original settings for outlook were returned to the default, which then started this annoying phrase guessing feature. I've disabled text suggestions on my laptop settings but I still have get the text suggestions on outlook mail. Settings for outlook itself hasn't shown anything that might control predictive text either, so I'm not sure how to turn the feature off.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-13T19:20:51+00:00

    Hi, Rashane. Thanks for reaching out! I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you, and I am here to work with you on this issue.

    Here's how you can disable it, Rashane:

    Settings > Mail > Compose and reply > Offer suggestion based on keywords in my messages

    I hope this helps! Please let me know if that works for you, ok?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-06T13:43:20+00:00

    My screen does not have that option beneath "Compose messages in this format." I'm on Outlook 365. I wonder why it's not there? I REALLY want to turn the predictive text off and there is no way to do it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-08T15:36:43+00:00

    Same with me, I don't have this option.  And this 'feature' just turned itself on today even though we switched to O365 in December.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T05:30:06+00:00

    Don't we want to go down a couple of lines to find the prediction function?  What you have highlighted seems to be about suggesting restaurants, sports teams, etc if the text description of the box is correct.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-31T18:52:34+00:00

    I have the same issue as KerenDibbens-Wyatt.  My Outlook screen does not give me the option to turn off text predictions as shown above.  As I type this on the internet, I note that I have the same issue here, so perhaps this is not an Outlook issue at all, but a computer issue...or a browser issue?  I have a new Lenevo computer and this is the first time I have experienced this annoying feature?  Anyone?

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