Outlook 2016 Spell Check Issue

Kamran Ahmed 271

We have an issue with all our French users using Outlook 2016.

The keyboard is set to French (Belgium) and when the spellcheck in Outlook automatically uses this.

I have changed the Proofing language default to English (United Kingdom) unchecked 'Detect language automatically', closed outlook and rebooted the device but each time the spellcheck reverts to French (Belgium), i have tested this on several Windows 10 devices with Outlook 2016 and 365.

Is this an expected behavior or is there a fix for this?

Thanks

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,146 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-08-07T10:12:01.867+00:00

Just checked in to see if you have tried the steps mentioned earlier. Feel free to let us know if you would like further assistance on this.

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Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,146 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-31T02:12:30.083+00:00
Please try the steps below on a problematic machine and see if the issue can be fixed:

Create a new email message, select the entire message body(Ctrl+A).

Go to the Review tab, select Language > Set Proofing Language, double comfirm 'Detect language automatically' has been unchecked, choose English (United Kingdom), click Set as Default.

Go to Review > Language > Language Preference, set English (United Kingdom) as the preferred proofing language, click Yes, restart Outlook to check the result.
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Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,146 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-08-12T09:39:49.6+00:00

I am writing to see if the above information was helpful. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Kamran Ahmed 271 Reputation points

2020-09-04T06:28:48.683+00:00

Apologies for the late reply
This didn’t work, I changed the keyboard setting to UK for this to work again.
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Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,146 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-09-04T06:51:01.497+00:00

Hi @Kamran Ahmed , Great to know that you've sorted it out. Thanks for sharing the solution! I've converted your comment to answer, so you can click the "Accept as Answer" button under your post. In this way, it will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members with a similar issue as well. Thanks!
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