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Is it possible to search an Outlook folder with Ctrl-F?

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Mar 15, 202613397 views

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I've got CtrlF burned into my brain and hands to do a search. Outlook makes you use CtrlE because CtrlF does a forward. But when composing an email, CtrlF initiates a find. Assuming I'm OK giving up CtrlF to forward an email, can I somehow get CtrlF to initiate a search in a given folder?

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If you are willing to use AutoHotKey, the following macro will make ctrlf work like ctrle. For me I wanted it to find text inside the email, so I mapped mine as follows:

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