Basic Commands

Like other Microsoft Office and Windows applications, we can utilize our strategy of tabbing between parts and using the arrow keys within parts in the calendar section of Outlook. However, Outlook gives us a whole slew of keyboard commands to make moving around the calendar even easier.

Best Bet Commands

As you’ll see, Outlook gives us many different avenues for navigating the calendar. However, you most likely won’t need to memorize every command in this guide to become fluent at using your calendar. Below are my best bet keyboard commands. These are the functions I see every calendar user hitting every day.

View

Without fancy commands, we can move through hours and appointments on our calendar using tab and the arrow keys. However, the effectiveness of these functions depend on your view.

What you’ll find as you play with these features is that you can only move to appointments or times within your current view. We are able to change the view by tabbing to the Back date and Forward date buttons. However, we can achieve more specific results faster using keyboard commands.

Navigation

Instead of adjusting the view, we might choose to simply use navigation commands instead. Navigation commands allow us to move to specific places regardless of our current view.