{"id":503,"date":"2014-07-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/07\/15\/why-does-outlook-map-ctrlf-to-forward-instead-of-find-like-all-right-thinking-programs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:10:30","slug":"20140715-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140715-00\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a widespread convention that the <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>F<\/kbd> 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&#8217;t. Why doesn&#8217;t Outlook get with the program?<\/p>\n<p>Rewind to 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The mail team was hard at work on their mail client, known as Exchange (code name Capone, in keeping with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_95\"> Chicago<\/a>-related code names from that era). Back in those days, the <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>F<\/kbd> keyboard shortcut did indeed call up the Find dialog, in accordance with convention.<\/p>\n<p>And then a bug report came in from a beta tester who wanted <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>F<\/kbd> to forward rather than find, because he had become accustomed to that keyboard shortcut from the email program he used before Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>That beta tester was Bill Gates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feature request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A feature request.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}