Pressing "Ctrl+F" would forward the message. Then, is there a keyboard shortcut for finding text in an email? (Think Adobe PDF Ctrl+F or Word Ctrl+F)
5 Answers
EDIT: To search within an e-mail, ALT+HFD
will bring up the Find dialog without having to add it to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Back when I thought you were asking about searching through e-mail items in Outlook:
From your Inbox just hit Ctrl+E
. This will focus the Instant Search box for searching the contents of e-mail. Alternately, Ctrl+Alt+A
will focus the search box for Search All Mail Items.
The F4 key will also bring up the Find and Replace dialog for searching in a message.
-
this works only when the message is already open in its own window :-/ but thank you better than nothing :-)– bugrasanFeb 8, 2023 at 18:42
While you have a message open. In the upper right hand is a "Find" button. Right click it and add to quick access toolbar. Then press ALT+6 or whatever number outlook has assigned to the button.
The F4 key is the one you want.
It will find a particular word (or part of a word) within the text/body of an e-mail.
Every time you hit the Enter key after that, it will find the next word or part.
There doesn't appear to be by default.
If you hover over the Find option the tooltip just reads:
Find
Find text in the document
If you hover over the Replace option you get:
Replace (Ctrl+H)
Replace text in the document