November 19, 2008
Microsoft Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts
Summary: Find your way around Microsoft Outlook with these keyboard shortcut keys.
Outlook is Microsoft's mail, diary and contacts program supplied with Microsoft Office or as a standalone product. If you don't have the exact version of a particular program then it may well be, that some or all of the shortcuts for a
particular program can still be used with different versions of the same program.
General Outlook shortcuts
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Description |
Shortcut Key |
|---|---|
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Send Message |
Ctrl + Enter or Alt + S |
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Reformat an email message from RTF to plain text |
Ctrl + Shift + O |
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Delete Message from message window |
Ctrl + D |
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New Contact Dialog |
Ctrl + Shift + C |
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New Office Document |
Ctrl + Shift + H |
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Read Warning Header |
Ctrl + Insert + W |
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To Save Non-Email Item in Current Folder |
Alt + S |
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Cancel the current operation |
Escape Key |
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Move up current level of treeview |
Up Arrow |
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Move down current level of treeview |
Down Arrow |
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Collapse current branch of treeview |
Left Arrow |
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Expand current branch of treeview |
Right Arrow |
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Launch go to folder dialog |
Ctrl + Y |
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Save unfinished item in Drafts folder |
Ctrl + S |
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Move selected item to Deleted Items folder |
Delete Key |
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Open print dialog box |
Ctrl + P |
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To delete current item |
Ctrl + D |
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Mark as unread or read |
Ctrl + Q |
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Select all |
Ctrl + A |
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Copy highlighted items/text to clipboard |
Ctrl + C |
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Cut highlighted items/text to clipboard |
Ctrl + X |
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Paste items/text from clipboard |
Ctrl + V |
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Open application menu (to maximise, minimise etc) |
Alt + Spacebar |
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Create new item |
Ctrl + N |
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Undo |
Ctrl + Z |
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Move cursor to top of email list |
Home |
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Move cursor to end of email list |
End |
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Move edit cursor to top in new email message window |
Ctrl + Home |
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Move edit cursor to end in new email message window |
Ctrl + End |
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Check Names |
Ctrl + K |
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Move cursor to Menu Bar |
Alt + or F10 |
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Launch Advanced Find |
Ctrl + Shift + F or F3 |
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Move to next Window pane |
F6 |
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Launch spell checker |
F7 |
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Move directly to Inbox |
Ctrl + Shift + I |
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Move directly to Outbox |
Ctrl + Shift + O |
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Copy selected item(s) to a folder |
Ctrl + Shift + Y |
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Create new folder dialog |
Ctrl + Shift + E |
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Move selected item to folder |
Ctrl + Shift + V |
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Create a new email message |
Ctrl + Shift + M |
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Create a new appointment item |
Ctrl + Shift + A |
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Create a new contact item |
Ctrl + Shift + C |
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Create a new task item |
Ctrl + Shift + K |
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Create a new note item |
Ctrl + Shift + N |
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Message options (from a new message window) |
Alt + P |
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Open address book |
Ctrl + Shift + B |
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Launch flag for follow up dialog box |
Ctrl + Shift + G |
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Reply to sender |
Ctrl + R |
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Reply to all |
Ctrl + Shift + R |
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Forward message |
Ctrl + F |
In calendar week view
|
Description |
Shortcut Key |
|---|---|
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Go to today’s date |
Alt + D |
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Go to a date |
Ctrl + G |
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Move to next date |
Down Arrow |
|
Down cialis free Arrow |
Up Arrow |
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Move forward one week |
Page Down |
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Move backwards one week |
Page Up |
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Move to appointments on current date |
Tab (hit enter twice to open item) |
Main Jaws keystrokes in Outlook
|
Description |
Shortcut Key |
|---|---|
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Say Line |
Insert + Up Arrow |
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Say All |
Insert + Down Arrow |
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Say Selected Text |
Insert + Shift + Down Arrow |
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Move focus to attachments list |
Insert + A |
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In spellchecker read misspelled word and suggestion |
Insert + F7 |
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Read Header Field One |
Alt + 1 |
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Read Header Field Two |
Alt + 2 |
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Read Header Field Three |
Alt + 3 |
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Read Header Field Four |
Alt + 4 |
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Read Header Field Five |
Alt + 5 |
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Click Cc Button |
Alt + Shift + 4 |
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Click To Button |
Alt + Shift + 3 |
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Launch Global keystrokes listbox |
Insert + F8 |
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Close Office Assistant |
Ctrl + Insert + F4 |
