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

Description

Shortcut Key

Send Message

Ctrl + Enter or Alt + S

Reformat an email message from RTF to plain text

Ctrl + Shift + O

Delete Message from message window

Ctrl + D

New Contact Dialog

Ctrl + Shift + C

New Office Document

Ctrl + Shift + H

Read Warning Header

Ctrl + Insert + W

To Save Non-Email Item in Current Folder

Alt + S

Cancel the current operation

Escape Key

Move up current level of treeview

Up Arrow

Move down current level of treeview

Down Arrow

Collapse current branch of treeview

Left Arrow

Expand current branch of treeview

Right Arrow

Launch go to folder dialog

Ctrl + Y

Save unfinished item in Drafts folder

Ctrl + S

Move selected item to Deleted Items folder

Delete Key

Open print dialog box

Ctrl + P

To delete current item

Ctrl + D

Mark as unread or read

Ctrl + Q

Select all

Ctrl + A

Copy highlighted items/text to clipboard

Ctrl + C

Cut highlighted items/text to clipboard

Ctrl + X

Paste items/text from clipboard

Ctrl + V

Open application menu (to maximise, minimise etc)

Alt + Spacebar

Create new item

Ctrl + N

Undo

Ctrl + Z

Move cursor to top of email list

Home

Move cursor to end of email list

End

Move edit cursor to top in new email message window

Ctrl + Home

Move edit cursor to end in new email message window

Ctrl + End

Check Names

Ctrl + K

Move cursor to Menu Bar

Alt + or F10

Launch Advanced Find

Ctrl + Shift + F or F3

Move to next Window pane

F6

Launch spell checker

F7

Move directly to Inbox

Ctrl + Shift + I

Move directly to Outbox

Ctrl + Shift + O

Copy selected item(s) to a folder

Ctrl + Shift + Y

Create new folder dialog

Ctrl + Shift + E

Move selected item to folder

Ctrl + Shift + V

Create a new email message

Ctrl + Shift + M

Create a new appointment item

Ctrl + Shift + A

Create a new contact item

Ctrl + Shift + C

Create a new task item

Ctrl + Shift + K

Create a new note item

Ctrl + Shift + N

Message options (from a new message window)

Alt + P

Open address book

Ctrl + Shift + B

Launch flag for follow up dialog box

Ctrl + Shift + G

Reply to sender

Ctrl + R

Reply to all

Ctrl + Shift + R

Forward message

Ctrl + F

In calendar week view

Description

Shortcut Key

Go to today’s date

Alt + D

Go to a date

Ctrl + G

Move to next date

Down Arrow

Down cialis free Arrow

Up Arrow

Move forward one week

Page Down

Move backwards one week

Page Up

Move to appointments on current date

Tab (hit enter twice to open item)

Main Jaws keystrokes in Outlook

Description

Shortcut Key

Say Line

Insert + Up Arrow

Say All

Insert + Down Arrow

Say Selected Text

Insert + Shift + Down Arrow

Move focus to attachments list

Insert + A

In spellchecker read misspelled word and suggestion

Insert + F7

Read Header Field One

Alt + 1

Read Header Field Two

Alt + 2

Read Header Field Three

Alt + 3

Read Header Field Four

Alt + 4

Read Header Field Five

Alt + 5

Click Cc Button

Alt + Shift + 4

Click To Button

Alt + Shift + 3

Launch Global keystrokes listbox

Insert + F8

Close Office Assistant

Ctrl + Insert + F4

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