Outlook does not support hotkeys like that. The only keys you can assign are Alt+ accelerator keys for toolbar and menu commands, including macros you've added to the menu.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

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Hello,

This is my first post to this newsgroup, and there is a chance that
this question may have already been answered sometime in the several
years that this group has probably been online. If so, I'd appreciate
it if someone can provide a pointer to the answer.

I'd like to program Hot Keys for Outlook 2003. For example, if
"ctrl-a" when input while a particular message is active, should sent
the message to an "Archive" folder. Things like that. I'm not a VBA
programmer, but don't mind quickly learning the APIs needed to do this,
if it is the case that a VBA macro will solve this problem.

It'd be great if someone can provide some advice on either existing
tools or macros that already do this, or pointers on how I can do this
myself.

Thanks.

LP