TIP: Create a “new mail” shortcut for Outlook

If you work at a company that’s as email-centric as mine, you’ll find yourself opening the “new mail” window in Outlook quite a bit. Although hopefully not too much – better to be responding to email than initiating new threads, though even that can get out of hand. The fewer people that generate email threads, the less email there is requiring a response! Any and every keyboard shortcut helps shave off seconds throughout the day, which add up over time. My friend Chris stopped by and showed me how to create a shortcut directly to “New Mail”. Combine that with the Vista Quicklaunch keyboard shortcuts, and Win+2* gets me a new mail message. Sweet.

It’s simple: create a shortcut with the following target.
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE” /c “IPM.Note”
(if your path to OUTLOOK.EXE differs, use yours)

Thanks Chris!
* Win+1 is, and always will be, PowerShell. :)

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One Response to “TIP: Create a “new mail” shortcut for Outlook”

  1. Sudarsan Srinivasan Says:

    Nice one. Are there any other shortcuts, like shortcuts to fill even the to, cc, subject and all those ??

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