Spell Checking Issues in Teams for Mac

Question

I have no idea why this question thread is locked (Spell check is unhelpful - Microsoft Community), but I have kind of a solution. Well...more of a work-around.

First, a restatement of the problem: In MS Teams for Mac, the chat editor will identify misspelled words, but will not offer suggestions if you right-click on the misspelling.

Now, the workaround: If you're in the master chat window, you can select "Pop out chat" (the arrow icon directly beneath your profile photo) to open the chat in its own window. For whatever reason, spelling suggestions will work in the pop-out window. This suggests to me that the problem is a bug in Teams for Mac because spelling suggestions work like they're supposed to in the Windows version of Teams (what a shocker).

Microsoft - please fix this.

Answer 1

Hello Mike McConnell,

Good day!!

Service Health Dashboard has indicated that issue TM390278 has been resolved as of: End time: Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at 12:00 AM UTC.

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Final status: The fix to repair the code regression leading to impact and restore functionality is complete, and we've confirmed with affected users that the right-click context menu is functioning as expected and impact is remediated.

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Root cause: A recent update to the Microsoft Teams desktop client intended to improve right-click context menu functionality introduced a code regression that resulted in impact.

Next steps:

• We're reviewing our Microsoft Teams desktop client update procedures pertaining to right-click context menu functionality to avoid similar impact in the future.

If you are still experiencing an issue, please let us know by starting a new thread as this may indicate either a scoping issue or an independent problem.

Thank you so much for your precious time.

Sincerely,

Ankita Vaidya | Microsoft Community Moderator

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Answer 2

Hello Mike McConnell,

Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

This issue was posted to the Service Health Dashboard (SHD) as incident TM390278 starting at 2022-06-09 2:22 AM. The user experience of this incident is: Users' right-click context menu isn't working as expected in the Microsoft Teams desktop client

More info: As a viable workaround, users can utilize the Microsoft Teams web app or users can utilize the 'pop out' window feature in their Microsoft Teams desktop client to access the right click context menu.

Scope of impact: This issue could potentially affect any user attempting to access the context menu within the Microsoft Teams desktop client.

Current status:  We anticipate the fix will be completely deployed by early next week.

Tenant administrators can view current information and updates on SHD at the link here

https://portal.office.com/admin/default.aspx#@/ServiceStatus/ServiceStatusHistory.aspx.

If you are experiencing a similar issue and do not see an SHD post, please let us know by sharing your tenant information via Private Message (PM) as this may indicate either a scoping issue or an independent problem. 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/privatemessage/inbox

For affected customers to easily identify the information here, this thread will be closed. You may subscribe to this thread or refer to SHD for updated information. I will also post back here once the issue is resolved on SHD.​

Thanks for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Ankita Vaidya | Microsoft Community Moderator

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