Outlook 2007 How Duplicate Email Message?

[Al Franz]

With older versions of Outlook I could hit the Ctrl F key from an email
composing window and it would pop up a new email window with an identical
message. Any idea how to do this with Outlook 2007 ?

 

[Brian Tillman]

With older versions of Outlook I could hit the Ctrl F key from an
email composing window and it would pop up a new email window with an
identical message. Any idea how to do this with Outlook 2007 ?

Click Forward?

 

[Al Franz]

I want to do this from an email that I am composing. For example when I
want to send a similar email to three people but want to customize each one
a little bit. Thus create the template once, click on Ctrl-F two times
which I could do in older Outlook versions, then personize the 3 emails.
Has the Ctrl - F key moved in Outlook 2007, I can't find that functionality?

The Click Forward would be if I am replying to an email I received only, or
am I missing something.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

In the previous Outlook editor, CTRL+F was the shortcut for forwarding
messages. This has been removed from the mail composing window. It has also
never been available with Word as the email editor as CTRL+F will initiate
the Find feature.
While I can see your clever trick, I don't think they intended it that way
and indeed follow your same reasoning that Forward is only needed on
sent/received messages.

The work around is to go to your Drafts folder, select your email and press
Forward as Brian indicated.

 

[Jason C]

Or you could use Other Actions | Resend this message.

Jason

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Which would only work on sent/received messages where the Forward button
would be available as well.
The discussion here was about the composing window of message drafts which
doesn't hold the Actions menu.

 

[michaelburk02]

Just figured this out. You need to click one of the recipient fields
and then hit CTRL+F to duplicate the message. If you're active in the
body text editor, it will behave as a Find shortcut. Actually an
elegant solution, but not well documented.