top | item 8036733

(no title)

pling | 11 years ago

Outlook shortcuts are a complete bastard.

You have Ctrl-F as discussed which is completely different to the rest of windows.

You have alt-S for send as well which is used in some language for special characters.

And the most annoying is shift+enter. When you want a single line break in an HTMl email it sends it instead. This has a warning now.

No end of grief those have given me.

discuss

WCityMike|11 years ago

That last one is fixable.

I'm on Outlook 2007, so I don't know if the preference has moved in 2010 or 2013, but:

Tools > Options > E-mail Options > Advanced E-Mail Options > uncheck "Press CTRL+ENTER to send messages"

com2kid|11 years ago

> And the most annoying is shift+enter.

Ctrl-enter is send in at least the US version of Outlook, it has been for years (e.g. at least the last decade I think.)

Shift-enter is single new line, across all versions of Office apps.

Too|11 years ago

Alt-S is used as "send" in many IM-applications.

Alt together some character is used as hotkey in ALL applications. Hold it down and you will see a small underline under (usually) the first character of most buttons, press this character on the keyboard and the button will be pressed. I think it would collide with S quite frequently. It is AltGr-S you are supposed to use for localized S-characters.

renata|11 years ago

For Alt-S, aren't AltGr and Alt different keys on your keyboard? I use the US-International keyboard layout and the right alt-key is AltGr and the left alt-key is Alt. Sending only happens with the left key.

kyllo|11 years ago

This is Windows, you're supposed to just click the buttons with your mouse.