Pimping Microsoft Outlook

I’m one of the odd people that actually like Outlook. It’s kind of a love hate relationship though. I like it for precisely the reason that many people hate it. It integrates email, calendar, and tasks all into one program. It can also be a beast, especially when you have to go into its settings to tweak things.

One thing I’ve wanted for a long time is the ability to do things with single keystrokes in Outlook. I wanted to hit the letter ‘a’ and have my currently selected email(s) get moved automatically into an archive folder. I wanted to hit ‘r’ to reply to the current email. Things like that.

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