Disabling the pesky CTRL-ENTER shortcut
Ever hit CTRL-ENTER by mistake while composing an email in Outlook and wondered what the heck happened? Well, here's the answer. CTRL-ENTER is the not-so-helpful shortcut key for 'Send my email immediately even though I've not yet finished typing it'. Which explains why your email instantly disappears into the cyber-ether whenever your press these two keys simultaneously. And which, of course, is helpful if you want to send your email at that precise moment in time, but a great big pain in the elbow if you don't.
Fortunately, a solution is at hand. You can disable CTRL-ENTER in Word by adding the following registry keys:
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes
String Value: CtrlEnter
Value Data: 13,8
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes
String Value: CtrlEnter
Value Data: 13,8
Now enjoy!
[Step by step instructions:
- Start, Run, type Regedit press OK
- Navigate through the folder tree to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\
- Go to Edit menu, select New, then Key
- Type DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes
- Select the new key folder you just created
- Go to Edit menu, select New, then String Value
- Type CtrlEnter
- Double click on the new String Value you created and enter 13,8 in the Value Data field.
- Repeat steps 2 to 8 for folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Word\11.0\Outlook\
- Close the Registry Editor and restart Outlook for the changes to take effect]