Microsoft Outlook.com Keyboard Shortcuts for Power Users

Microsoft just(31 July 2012)  launched their new mail service Outlook.com. It’s a revolutionary, revamped and modern mail service from Microsoft and also a double punch for major rival Google. Outlook was designed from the scratch, instead of just providing an upgrade to the existing Hotmail service. At first glance, its minimal and attractive service and there is no ads. Primarily focused on Email content.

Like other email services, Outlook is comes with some handy keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate between mails and perform other actions. No doubt, Keyboard shortcuts will improve overall mail experience. Not everyone uses shortcut keys to save time, but some people find them easier to use than a mouse, especially when spending long stretches of time at the computer.

In outlook you can enable and disable keyboard shortcuts and you can use shortcut keys of Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Yay that’s a great advantage for the users migrating from Gmail to Outlook. Lets see how to achieve this.

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• Sign in to your Outlook.com account
• Go to Settings by clicking gear icon in top right(see screenshot)
• Now you can see a list of options, from the list select Keyboard Shortcuts under Customizing Outlook label.
• By default Outlook shortcuts are enabled and you can choose Gmail or Yahoo mail shortcuts.

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