Comments on: Keyboard Ninja: Create a Hotkey to Switch to Your Open Outlook Window

By: sidney

sidney — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:57:30 +0000

trying to find way of opening MSFT outlook used the keyboard. followed the above directions, & others; BUT when i “ctrl + alt + o” nothing happens??? only when i use the mouse, will outlook open. “googled” to see if other solutions, but -0- –> can anyone help?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:18:51 +0000

In XP Pro, with Outlook 11, if you have it set to “Hide when Minimized,” the hotkey will not work to restore the window. If you don’t select this option and just let Outlook minimize to the taskbar as usual, then the hotkey will work to restore the window – or you can close Outlook and the hotkey will open it.

By: Julius Moody

Julius Moody — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:30:46 +0000

My .pst files on my outlook folders bar in missing. I know that the files are still in my computer. They are at Personal folders(1).pst C:\documents and settings\Julius\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook348,624 KB Office Data File date modified 5/12/2009.

thanks, Julius Moody

By: Sangeeth

Sangeeth — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:06:03 +0000

Very useful information. I already applied it in my office PC. Thanks a lot.

By: Dom Hennig

Dom Hennig — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:36:30 +0000

Do any of you know how to make a key always type something for me? I’m working on designing a website. For Instance, I always need to copy this one line in a page:

The red fox is hot.

But, at the same time I always need to copy a line:

The red fox is brown.

so, Cntrl+V does one of them, and I was wondering if I could have another key do another?

Thanks.`

By: Mr. Mojo Risin

Mr. Mojo Risin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:14:19 +0000

I have two hidden desktop shortcuts with shortcut keys assigned. The shortcut key assignments always stop working restarting the computer. The shortcuts are still there on the desktop but the key assignments stop working. I have to go through the entire process every time to get them working again. Any ideas on that? New HP laptop with Vista Home Premium.

By: ZetaPirate

ZetaPirate — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:59:12 +0000

The same thing happened to ALL of my hotkeyed shortcuts

By: steve

steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:18:56 +0000

Trying to troubleshoot…I have assigned the hotkey for outlook, and it worked for awhile but not it is not working? i went back into the properties and the hotkey assignment is still there, but outlook is not restoring when i use it now. Anyone able to help? I thought it was a great function until it stopped working.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:06:24 +0000

@Roger

Brilliant.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:55:22 +0000

This was good information, especially /recycle. It inspired me to do this autohotkey script:

#o:: ;Runs or hides Outlook
ifWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32
WinMinimize
else
run, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE /recycle
return