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I'm a gmail junkie, and one of my favorite features is the keyboard shortcut "a" inside an email to archive the message. I can't remember if that was the default or if I set it to such a quick little keypress, but by now it's totally ingrained in my memory.

I'm setting up Outlook 2010 for work, and set up a similar "quick step" to archive, mark as read, and mark as complete any email.

It would be great, except for keyboard shortcuts they only give the option for "CTRL + SHIFT + 1" and other number key options. With a keyboard shortcut that convoluted, I'm not going to remember it and might as well just reach for my mouse.

Is there any way to set custom keyboard shortcuts for Outlook 2010? I want one-key shortcuts, not 3-keys-at-once!

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You can use Autohotkey to make any shortcut you want. It's very easy to learn, they have a good enough documentation

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Thanks, and I actually have a few autohotkey scripts running... I foresee trouble, though, changing something as simple as the "a" key into a command. It would have to be limited to Outlook firstoff, and only when a textfield doesn't have focus. Might be possible with advanced autohotkey, but not simple. – cksubs Oct 26 '10 at 0:10
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I think that you could achieve what you wanted simply using the Window Spy in AutoHotKey to find out what the whole window is defined as, and then using IfWinActive to make it only apply in certain window classes. See this page for details. autohotkey.com/docs/commands/IfWinActive.htm – blackmastiff Dec 13 '10 at 4:37
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  1. Right-click on the Quick Access Toolbar and select Customize Quick Access Toolbar.
  2. Under Choose commands from, select All Commands.
  3. Select Signature and click the Add button.
  4. Click OK

If you had the default five items in your Quick Access Toolbar, Signature will now be #6. Access it by pressing Alt+6. Note that if you are in the Calendar then you need to release Alt before pressing 6.

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I actually designed a hardware circuit which is fully capable of doing this! it's called the 1-key-keyboard..

And a bit later I made an updated version which supports 4 buttons, (without any extra components apart from the extra buttons) so you could use it for 4 different shortcuts! - I suggest you go and make this! http://blog.flipwork.nl/?x=entry:entry100224-003937

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Actually OS X itself allows you to do this for any app for any menu item using the Keyboard/Mouse system prefs pane. For details see:

http://lifehacker.com/343328/create-a-keyboard-shortcut-for-any-menu-action-in-any-program

Jon

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