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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Outlook for Mac 2011 that allows me to jump back to the main Inbox folder? Under my Inbox, I have a long list of folders that spans more than a full screen. If I'm at one of the folders close to the bottom of the list, let's say Sent Items and want to quickly go back to the Inbox folder, I have to use the mouse to scroll up in the folder list and then click on Inbox.

Is there a way to go there faster? I remember there being a shortcut for this on Windows if I'm not mistaken.

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I wrote a little AppleScript to do this. If you copy it to your "~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Outlook Script Menu Items" folder you can assign a shortcut key to it using System Preferences/Keyboard.

Works like a charm.

The script is:

on run {}   
    tell application "Microsoft Outlook"    
        set selected folder to inbox
    end tell
end run
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Perfect, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a ton! – nwinkler Feb 14 at 9:57

I dont think there is any shortcut available for it. But still here is a list of shortcuts for your reference.

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Mh, that's too bad. I had a look at the list, but didn't find anything that does what I need. A brief look at the MS forums confirms this, there's more people looking for something similar, but no answers. – nwinkler Jun 18 '12 at 11:31

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