Tip #3911 - Keyboard Shortcuts For Outlook Folders
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Keyboard
Shortcuts For Outlook Folders
Do you use Outlook
2002 or a newer version?
If so, do you find
yourself frequently navigating through the folder list?
Or, maybe you spend
a lot of time clicking on the Outlook Bar, jumping from place to place.
You may even know
the basic shortcuts for jumping to the Inbox (Ctrl + Shift + I)
and the Outbox (Ctrl + Shift + O).
What about the rest
of the folders though?
If you'd like an all
keyboard method of jumping from folder to folder, here's what you're looking
for.
Begin by using Ctrl
+ Y.
This will open the
Go to Folder window.
Once here, there's
a few ways to navigate through the list.
The most obvious method
would be the arrow keys. The up and down arrows will
obviously control the direction, whereas the left and right arrows will
collapse and expand folders (respectively) within folders.
Other options for
navigation include the Home and End keys,
which will quickly move you to the top or the bottom of the list.
A fast way to move
directly to a specific folder is to hit the key for the first
letter in the folder's name. (If you have more than one folder
beginning with the same letter, repeatedly using the same key will cycle
through them).
When you've highlighted
what you need, hit the Enter key to both exit the window
and to be returned to Outlook in the designated folder.
There you have it.
Outlook folder navigation straight from the keyboard!
~ April
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