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

Question

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? This makes me nuts!

Answer 1

You could try this link it won't let you map ctrlf but you could make altf work.

Or as I said above - you could use ctrlshiftf

Answer 2

If you are willing to use AutoHotKey, the following macro will make ctrlf work like ctrle.

#IfWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
^f::Send, {CtrlDown}e{CtrlUp}

For me I wanted it to find text inside the email, so I mapped mine as follows:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
^f::Send, {CtrlDown}o{CtrlUp}{AltDown}hfd{AltUp}