Friday, January 4, 2013

Outlook Mac converting underscore to italic!!

Outlook in Mac converting text between underscores to italic  !!

This is very irritating when typing text with underscores in outlook on Mac. It converts _my_name_  to myname . After a bit of fiddling around I found a way to resolve it:

Follow the steps below:

1. Go to Outlook -> Preferences
2. Click on AutoCorrect under Personal Settings 
3. Click on the AutoFormat tab
By default "Bold" and _italic_ with real formatting is selected. 

4. Unselect the "Bold" and _italic_ with real formatting check box



Go through the other auto formatting options and uncheck/check whatever is necessary.

Enjoy!





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46 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 24, 2013 at 4:10 AM

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  2. Mark J. BobakAugust 26, 2013 at 8:49 PM

    Very useful, thanks! This was driving me crazy!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2014 at 8:57 PM

    Bless you! What a pain this used to be!

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  4. mobycatApril 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM

    Thanks! I find that behavior (making underscores into italics extremely annoying. If I wanted to italicize something, I'll do it myself)

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  5. AnonymousJuly 1, 2014 at 9:08 PM

    Thank you so much for the help!

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  6. AnonymousJuly 16, 2014 at 10:48 PM

    Thank you!

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  7. AnonymousJuly 19, 2014 at 3:00 AM

    Thanks!!

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  8. 醉·醉·鱼August 18, 2014 at 2:33 PM

    Thanks!

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2014 at 3:38 AM

      At this point, all I can do is reiterate what everyone else has commented. Thank you! I wasted a lot of time assuming this was an Outlook problem - and Outlook does have its own issues with spelling auto features.

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  9. Thad BeierDecember 18, 2014 at 11:26 PM

    Thank you thank you. Wish I'd looked this up months ago!

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2015 at 11:35 PM

    Thanks a lot

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  11. stevewMarch 17, 2015 at 12:37 AM

    Thank you! This was a big annoyance.

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  12. AnonymousMay 14, 2015 at 5:55 PM

    You saved me!!! I know I was losing years off of my life due to how frustrated and upset I would get every time this auto-correct feature would "help" me - geeeesh.
    Thank you so much.

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  13. AnonymousJune 5, 2015 at 8:29 PM

    Thanks a lot. It is really helpful.

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  14. KARTHIKJuly 1, 2015 at 9:48 AM

    Thanks a lot buddy

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  15. KARTHIKJuly 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM

    Thanks a lot buddy

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  16. ChrisJuly 31, 2015 at 11:29 PM

    Thank you - you are the real MVP ...

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  17. UnknownAugust 13, 2015 at 8:07 PM

    THANK YOU!

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  18. Mark WishneuskyOctober 19, 2015 at 10:58 PM

    Thank you! I was pulling my hair out every time this happened but was always too busy to go and fix it. I stopped myself today and made sure to GET 'ER DONE!

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  19. UnknownDecember 3, 2015 at 10:56 PM

    Thank you so much. This has driven me crazy for so long. I've looked at those preferences but it wasn't obvious that it would fix this issue.

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  20. UnknownJanuary 8, 2016 at 1:54 AM

    Thank you for posting!

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  21. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2016 at 9:34 AM

    I was "living" with this issue as it seemed to me to show up in Outlook for Mac 2013 (for me).
    I already knew instinctively that I could use command+i to turn italics on and off so I was thinking it was a bug and would just deal with it, I finally got tired of it and found this solution (which I probably would have never found myself in such an obscure setting (thanks Microsnot)).
    I am very happy, and on the very first link I click after a Google search (but not the top one).

    Kudos

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  22. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2016 at 7:48 PM

    My Outlook rage has one less trigger today... thanks

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  23. JonJanuary 27, 2016 at 2:27 AM

    BAM!! Solved. Thank you!

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  24. bandhuFebruary 2, 2016 at 2:57 AM

    very very useful! This was so annoying and i had to type words with _ all the time!

    thank you!

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  25. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2016 at 10:48 PM

    Thanks!

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  26. Sophie-Simon-Ingrid-JoeFebruary 20, 2016 at 12:13 AM

    I think I love you!!! Thank you so much for your help!!

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  27. AnonymousApril 3, 2016 at 10:05 AM

    Very helpful. Thanks!

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  28. UnknownApril 5, 2016 at 8:45 PM

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  29. UnknownApril 5, 2016 at 8:46 PM

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  30. AnonymousApril 5, 2016 at 8:46 PM

    Thank you, Jesus!

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  31. NathanApril 13, 2016 at 4:45 AM

    Thanks! This has been annoying me for months and it's all better now.

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  32. UnknownApril 27, 2016 at 7:30 PM

    Thanks, this fixed two serious issues for me that made me want to uninstall outlook. Looks like I'll stick out for a while longer :-)

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  33. NeilMay 21, 2016 at 7:41 PM

    THANK YOU!!! All our database table names have underscores in, and this was driving me crazy!

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  34. ciga-rmJuly 29, 2016 at 12:49 AM

    thank you so much! that was really helpful! a big irritant is now fixed!

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  35. bmacAugust 23, 2016 at 8:39 PM

    OMG, thank you!

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  36. AnonymousOctober 19, 2016 at 11:03 PM

    THANK YOU!! This was one of the most annoying things I found so far.

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  37. Eric SoykeNovember 17, 2016 at 1:25 AM

    Hooray!

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  38. sumayaNovember 23, 2016 at 6:42 PM

    Thank you . That's a relief

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  39. AnonymousDecember 3, 2016 at 3:45 AM

    thank you

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  40. AnonymousMarch 15, 2017 at 12:36 AM

    thanks, very useful.

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  41. JibbsMay 7, 2017 at 8:38 PM

    You have earned a spot in heaven for this blog post alone :) That "feature" was driving me crazy.

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  42. AmanJuly 24, 2017 at 7:39 PM

    Can't thank you enough... It was driving me crazy... I had copy and paste the stuff... Thank you so much

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  44. Cross2December 13, 2017 at 2:02 AM

    OMG I was going to throw the computer across the room trying to type a file name. Thanks!

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  45. AnonymousAugust 10, 2018 at 3:37 PM

    I was recently forced to use Outlook on my mac. You have restored my sanity. Now I just need to reassemble my mac from the pieces on the floor.

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