Yet more on disabling CTRL+Enter in Outlook

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In tribute to the insightful but sadly anonymous comment on my recent blog entry about disabling the CTRL+Enter shortcut ("u have way too much time on your hands if things like this bother you") , here is yet another solution to this minor annoyance ;-)

One route is to add a macro to prompt you whenever you send an email. Something like this should do it:

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
  Cancel = (MsgBox("OK to send?", vbOKCancel + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, "Your email is on its way!") = vbCancel)
End Sub

And as previously posted in Exchange Server 2007 the administrator can disable the shortcut by using the group policy control shown below:

Disabling CTRL-Enter through Policy

Sadly, and contrary to my anonymous commentee's suggestion, I don't have too much time on my hands. Which explains why I'm always looking for ways to improve my work productivity. And happy to share my findings with my readers through this blog.

Now what on earth am I going to do to fill the rest of the day?