For readers who are still on Windows XP, you’ll need to incorporate another program ( ) to add the information to the clipboard (using the “Add the text content of clipboard to info1.txt” related command because Windows XP does not recognize the ‘clip’ command used in the batch file below). NOTE: This assumes that the reader is using Windows 7. Well, it took a bit of digging, but we found a way to add your e-mail address to the clipboard with shortcut keystrokes, then you can use CTRL+V to paste the e-mail anywhere you need it. So, this week we’re having a rare ‘two days in a row’ posting. Normally, I don’t post articles two days in a row, but I wanted to get the reader the response, and this isn’t something that I can copy/paste into an e-mail, then post later.
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A reader of that post posed the following question:ĭo you know how to create another type of shortcut? I want to have my email address entered with a Ctrl + something. Press that number to expand the Account menu and then press the listed number in front of the account that you want to use to select it.Īccount selection by numbers via the Quick Access Toolbar in Outlook.Back in May, I wrote about ways to create your own keyboard shortcuts Now when you press the ALT button, you’ll see a number next to the Account command in the QAT. In a similar way, you can also add the command to the Ribbon. Press OK to close the Options screen and to return to your message.Select it and press the “Add >” button.Scroll down the list of commands until you find “Account”.Set the “Choose commands from” list to “All Commands”.
Select the Quick Access Toolbar section.Open the Options dialog via File-> Options.This command will list numbers in front of the account names so you can quickly select them (and learn them by heart to become even quicker). In that case, you can add the Account command to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). If you’ve got a lot of accounts or aliases, selecting the correct account via the arrow keys could be quite slow. Note 2: If you want to learn how to name your accounts see: Rename Email Accounts and Mailbox Folders. This is just a visual bug with no further negative side-effects. In that case, restarting Outlook will remove the underlining again. Note 1: The character could stay underlined for the remainder of your Outlook session. You can now select the sending account by selecting it with your arrow keys and pressing Enter. Pressing the key combination will expand the From button. The underlined character should now show on the button. If nothing gets underlined, press ALT+F1. You can find out which key you need to press by pressing the ALT key once on your keyboard and then look at the underlined character for the account selection button. The ALT+key combination that you need to use to open the Account list depends on your language of Outlook.įor the English version of Outlook, the keyboard shortcut is ALT+M. To do that, you’ll need to add the Account command to your Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) or Ribbon. Instead of using the arrow keys, you can also enable selecting an account via a number. You can select the sending account via an ALT+key shortcut and then use the arrow keys to select the correct account. Is there an easy way to select the sending account via a keyboard shortcut? In Outlook, I have multiple accounts configured but I have not yet found out how to switch between the accounts when composing an email. I also found that using keyboard shortcuts is often much quicker than using a mouse. I do a lot of typing so I try to use the mouse as little as possible as it breaks my flow.