How do I get rid of the "tab" that auto completes phrases? Its annoying and I do not know how it got there
How do I get rid of that annoying "Auto complete" tab that shows up in every document and e-mail I write
Nancy Anderson
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Thank you for using OWA, and we apologize this feature isn’t meeting your expectations. We constantly listen to feedback to improve OWA to help increase productivity, so please continue providing it!
To disable this feature:
- At the top of the page, select Settings > View all Outlook settings > Mail > Compose and reply.
-Under “Text predictions”, clear the “Suggest words or phrases as I type” check box.
You can find more information on this feature here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-intelligent-technology-in-outlook-on-the-web-and-outlook-com-24b30683-8340-4b69-b8ac-4193ec528a70
50 comments
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Anonymous
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Me too - v annoying. How about this for an idea - ask if we want it rather than wasting millions of people hours searching on google to remove the annoying text that is appearing without our choice. Just a suggestion - bit like asking before you grope someone rather than asking them to find a setting to turn of the groping in settings, you know, good theanners
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Anonymous
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Get rid of this annoying, frustrating and useless feature. IT'S DRIVING ME MAD!!!
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Fred Barnes
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I disabled this - it was driving me nuts and started for no reason at all. Some people like to write and they are not robots looking for quick homogenised solutions.
How about making these kinds of 'useful features' optin instead of randomly activated so you're not suddenly barging in on someone while they are quietly going about their business. It's polite to ask first.
You wouldn't like it if I came prancing into your office while you were trying to concentrate and started messing up your desk and rearranging things. -
This is a completely useless addition - even if I did want the predicted phrase, I would still have to physically type it, as the phrase did not actually stay once I pressed the spacebar or tab. No idea what this was devised for, except to annoy your users.
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Anonymous
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This is the most infuriating, disruptive, patronising and even inaccurate source of unsolicited 'help'. I hope I've succesfully disabled it - about to find out . . .
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Steve
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I have no idea where the "Settings" tab is at the top of the page!
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Anonymous
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******* horrible, I already disabled it but my god that was ******* irritating. One slipped finger and a whole *** sentence is in there as though I didn't know what the **** I was supposed to say, it starts out as a nice idea and turns into a **** show when you're stressed out and writing an email at three am complaining about some ******** and you know exactly what you want to say. ********. ********. You don't know me.
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No
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I don't even mind the feature, as Gmail has had it for a while now, but I would love it if Outlook would STOP ASKING FOR MY FEEDBACK in every email I type.
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Curtis
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Add me to the list of people not happy with the feature. I don't care if other people like it. But I want an option to remove it. How do I do this?
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layla
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Thank goodness for the person who taught us all how to get rid of the replies that come up for no reason! The only way before I learnt how to get rid of them was to actually reply when I didn't need to! Bless your soul whoever wrote how to get rid of them. ❤
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Anonymous
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Alllow me to cut & paste the previous comment, it expresses my thought EXACTLY.
I HATE THIS FEATURE! it interrupts my train of thought and is incredibly annoying. I don't know who made this decision, but it was incredibly stupid. I can write my own **** emails, for God's sake!
My eternal gratitude goes out to the person who posted a solution. To Microsoft: Please inform users of how to disable this and fire the person who thought it was a good idea. -
page whittenburg
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I HATE THIS FEATURE! it interrupts my train of thought and is incredibly annoying. I don't know who made this decision, but it was incredibly stupid. I can write my own **** emails, for God's sake!
My eternal gratitude goes out to the person who posted a solution. To Microsoft: Please inform users of how to disable this and fire the person who thought it was a good idea. -
Julia Broxholm
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Why do you ask for suggestions to improve Outlook if you don't listen to the complaints and offer a fix? Thank goodness another person with a comment was able to find the fix in Settings. No thanks to you guys! And by the way, this is a horrible, useless feature.
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Cori Dauber
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For the love of God LET ME WRITE MY OWN **** EMAILS I AM NOT A TEENAGE GIRL
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Anonymous
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here is a how to to get rid of this annoying feature,
copied from an earlier thread.I found a way of disabling this: Click on the little cog wheel in the top right hand corner to access Outlook settings, and then click on Access All Settings. Then under Compose and Reply scroll down and un-check all: Suggested replies, Text suggestions, ... etc. You can also select what it checks for in terms of grammar and writing style. I believe this should also disable the stupid smiley suggestions when you type in Thanks or Sorry and so on, and outlook highlights it and wants you to pick an annoying gif or smiley.
As someone who uses Outlook for professional correspondence only, I too found these features really annoying! Predictive text might be good for people who either constantly write the same thing or who really are such terrible spellers and thinkers that they can't put a sentence together. For the rest of us it just gets in the way.please send out a message to all users detailing how to disable these features.
And please give feedback to whoever activated this that it has not been a raging success for users. -
Anonymous
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AMEN!!
How do I get rid of it.
I tried some options suggested by google and they did not work. -
Julie Reynolds
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Please get rid of the auto-fill text predictor. Or at least make it optional. It's annoying, distracting, and not at all helpful.
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robert steyer
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auto complete is useless, confusing, time-consuming, irrelevant and stupid.
Get Rid of it -
Wendy Cotter
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please STOP
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warren dewey
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It ends up wasting valuable time. I know what will write before I type. It literally slows me down, because it's distracting. HOW DO I STOP THIS FEATURE? This is another example of technology overreach where someone working for Microsoft thought it would be a great idea but has never been at a level of communication or increased level of typing skills to form full and complete sentences.
