Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?

Raymond ChenJuly 15, 2014Jul 15, 201407/15/14

It's a widespread convention that the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut initiates a Find operation. Word does it, Excel does it, Wordpad does it, Notepad does it, Internet Explorer does it. But Outlook doesn't. Why doesn't Outlook get with the program? Rewind to 1995. The mail team was hard at work on their mail client, known as Exchange (code name ...