Disable Ctrl+Enter shortcut in Outlook

If you press Ctrl-Enter in an Outlook compose email window, then it sends the email without any warning at all. This can be very annoying, especially if you didn't want to send the email just then.



You can turn this feature off by doing the following:



Original Link: Outlook Tip Request - Disable Ctrl+Enter shortcut

You can disable CTRL-ENTER
in Outlook by adding the two following registry keys:



Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes

String
Value: CtrlEnter

Value Data: 13,8



Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes

String
Value: CtrlEnter

Value Data: 13,8



NOTE: I'm using Office 2003 = 11.0
(XP = 10.0, 2000 = 9.0)





Step-by-Step Instructions:



1. Start
--> Run, type REGEDIT press OK

2. If you can locate the folder
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\

Microsoft\Office\11.0\ skip directly to
Step #7



ELSE: We'll need to create the necessary Registy
Keys



Locate and click on the folder
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\

Microsoft\

3. From the Edit
pull-menu, select New, then Key

4. Type Office

5. Click on the new Office
key folder you just created

6. From the Edit pull-menu, select New, then Key,
type 11.0



Note: Office 2003 = 11.0, XP = 10.0, 2000 = 9.0



7. Click
on the new key 11.0 folder you just created

8. From the Edit pull-menu,
select New, then Key

9. Type Outlook (the second time type Word)

10. Click
on the new Outlook (or Word) key folder you just created

11. From the Edit
pull-menu, select New, then Key

12. Type
DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes

13. Click on the new key
DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes folder you just created

14. From the Edit
pull-menu, select New, then String Value

15. Type CtrlEnter

16. Double
click on the CtrlEnter String Value and enter 13,8 in the Value Data
field

17. Return to Step #7 substituting Outlook for Word

18. Close
REGEDIT and restart Outlook for the changes to take
effect