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Quickly Resolve Names from your Outlook Address Book

By using the following keyboard shortcut, you can do a quick "lookup" to find email addresses when composing mail from Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

  1. Open Outlook
  2. Create a new mail message
  3. Enter a partial name in the TO: field (such as "smith") for the message.
  4. While your cursor is still in the TO: field, press ‹alt+k› or ‹ctrl+k›. (Push and hold down the alt or the ctrl button on your keyboard, and then press the k button.)
  5. Outlook will perform a name lookup using the text that you entered. Select the name of the intended person from the list and click OK.
  6. The e-mail address is entered into the TO: for you.