I often overlook this one - yet I would use it 10+ times a day.
When creating a new email to someone you are unsure if you have them in your contacts list or not. So you write their first name and see if it autopreviews their address. If it is not someone you email regularly it will not resolve or become underlined as others do. (It will actually after a long delay but I haven't time to wait around)
So 2 options -
1 > You manually use the mouse and hit the "To" button to see if they come up in one of your address books. This is laborious.
2 > You use a shortcut key - ALT + K - and it automatically searches your address book and will resolve it if it can. It's fast and if you have multiple people in your "To" list it will resolve them one by one. (remember separate multiple names with a semi colon)
Which reminds me of several others I use when emailing -
- CONTROL + R when reading and email - creates a reply to that email
- CONTROL + F forwards the email being read
- CONTROL + SHIFT + M - when in outlook main screen to create a new email
- ALT + . - (that's a fullstop) to shortcut hitting the "To" button when in a new email
- ALT + C - to shortcut to the "CC" button.
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and the FINAL nugget ALT + S - to send that email right away
Yep I hate the slow multimouse click syndrome - kick some ass by learning shortcuts - much more productive.
- Jeremy
posted @ Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:13 PM