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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 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 |
Content author: technology@rnib.org.uk
Last updated: 08/04/2008 18:38
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