After a major overhaul of Hotmail or the Live Mail account to Outlook, Microsoft has also made sure that any anybody who is willing to migrate from Yahoo Mail or Gmail to Outlook.com can use the same set of Keyboard shortcuts as they were using before. Below are the details on How to turn on those shortcuts or completely turn it off.
- Go to Mail Settings
- Look for Label which says Customize Outlook and select Keyboard Settings from it.
- Under this screen, you will see option for all the things we just talked above :
Below is the list of Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts you can make use of :
| To do this | Press this |
|---|---|
| Delete a message | Delete |
| Create a new message | Ctrl+N |
| Send a message | Ctrl+Enter |
| Open a message | Ctrl+Shift+O |
| Print a message | Ctrl+Shift+P |
| Reply to a message | Ctrl+R |
| Reply all to a message | Ctrl+Shift+R |
| Forward a message | Ctrl+Shift+F |
| Save a draft message | Ctrl+S |
| Flag a message for follow up | L |
| Categorize a message | C |
| Mark a message as junk | Ctrl+Shift+J |
| Mark a message as read | Ctrl+Q |
| Mark a message as unread | Ctrl+U |
| Move to a folder | Ctrl+Shift+V |
| Open the next message | Ctrl+. |
| Open the previous message | Ctrl+, |
| Close a message | Esc |
| Search your email messages | / |
| Check spelling | F7 |
| Select all | S then A |
| Deselect all | S then N |
| Go to the inbox | F then I |
| Go to your Drafts folder | F then D |
| Go to your Sent folder | F then S |
