disable Alt+S shortcut

Jan Czarnecki

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Outlook 365 on Win 11.

Thank you for showing how to disable Alt+S shortcut in Outlook.

For those who do not know what the issue is:
In Outlook Alt+S shortcut sends the mail by default. However, when typing Polish, Right_Alt+s inserts diacritic 'ś'. So, when one sends mails in both English and Polish like me, when I forget to switch to Polish language when intending to type 'ś', my unfinished mails is send out. This is VERY, VERY annoying, especially that it happens so often. The only remedy as far as I know is editing the registry. See Avoid Accidentally Sending Messages in Outlook.

It does work, Halleluiah!

Q1: However, it works for lower case s only. But if, e.g., you would like to wish somebody Happy Holidays (in Polish 'Wesołych Świąt'), your wishes are send after pressing Shift+Right_Alt+S.
I can live with that as there are not so many times that I need a capital 'Ś', but it would be nice to kill this shortcut once and for all.

Q2: I am not expert in editing Registry, so my newly added key is named 'default' rather than Del_Alt_S or something similar, and 'rename' is grayed.

Any suggestions on both of the above, please?

Jan
 
Sorry I misunderstood. I thought the original one should work for both caps and lower case but thought you said it did not.

Capital S is 83
Alt is 16

Right alt *should* use the same key modifier number - at least I can't find a unique one for it.

Thank you once more, Diane.
Special thanks for sending me the link to Group Policy. Following the Note there (on combining modifier keys, e.g., Shift + Alt) I've added another line under the key DisabledShortcutKeysCheckBoxes : New Value REG_SZ 83,20 (20 being the sum of 16 for Alt and 4 for Shift), and to my pleasant surprise it disabled Alt+Shift+S.
Thus, those two lines prevent unintentional sending mail in Outlook 365 on Win 11. It is likely to do the same for other versions of Outlook on Windows but I have only tested it on mine.
 
Cool. Thanks for that - I knew about combining codes but had forgotten, thanks for reminding me.
 
Hi Diane and Jan
I have similar problem, tried the solution with RegKey creation but it gave no result. I cannot download the .reg files created by Diane. Can you share some ideas how to do it on Edge browser?
Thank you
 
OK. I managed registry file import. However the problem still exists. Some observations and facts:
1. I use Windows 11 and Outlook 2019. The problem has appeared recently (on Win10 and Outlook 2019 I have on my old laptop it does not exist, just checked)
2. Autosending works when I press alt+S FOR MORE THEN 1 symbol at the time . eg word 'ślad' doesn't send the message while 'ilość' or 'śś' does
3. The function 'Repair' I used for Office 2019 hasn't solved the problem :(.
Hope you can help me somehow... The only solution I'm thinking about is reinstalling Office 2019...
 
What is your keyboard language? It's possible the modifier keys are different.
 
Polish since the beginning (Windows initial configuration).
What are 'modifier keys'?
It seems as if ALT+S combination that in Polish (making 'ś' symbol) normally should be "in front" of general Office Policy (sending out the e-mail) in my case is "behind" it. If you know what I mean...
The other idea is: perhaps I should turn off and uninstall PL keyboard and install it again? I'm not as deep in the details - and look for common user solutions :).
 
modifier keys was probably not the best term to use - those apply to alt, ctrl, shift which modify the key. I'm thinking the s key on the polish keyboard might use a different value. I'll look it up.

BTW - did you restart outlook? that is necessary after editing the registry.
 
Is this your keyboard layout and the keys that are sending -
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Not quite. I have typical qwerty keyboard and it is right ALT (here AltGr) that I use for diacritic symbols in PL like ś, ź, ą, ę ,ć etc.
Of course any time I made changes in registry not only I restarted Outlook but also whole Windows 11.
 
So we need the codes for those two keys.

On the US keyboard, it blocks both left and right alt + s from sending... but altgr has different functions, so the code would be different.
 
One new observation: When I create a task in outlook 2019 ALTGr+S activates 'Save and Close' command
 
It should in appointments too - it does that if the item in one that can't be sent.
 
Additionally, I figured out that switching back to PL lang in Office stops the problem. So the question is how to solve it in EN lang version of Office but with PL keyboard?
One more example:
Now, when I input ś it sends out in IMAP message but does not send in Exchange message (instead opens addressbook). OMG. 🥲
Is it possible that there is a big mess in ś and other diacritic symbols? Shall I reinstall office? Any other solution?
 
I don't think reinstalling office will make a difference - it's not the software, but the keyboard layout and the keycodes.
instead opens addressbook
It should work the same in both if the message is addressed or has a resolvable name in the address fields. If the name is not resolvable, the address book will come up (even if you click on the Send button).
 
Additionally, I figured out that switching back to PL lang in Office stops the problem. So the question is how to solve it in EN lang version of Office but with PL keyboard?

Now, when I input ś it sends out in IMAP message but does not send in Exchange message (instead opens addressbook). OMG. 🥲
Is it possible that there is a big mess in ś and other diacritic symbols? Shall I reinstall office? Any other solution?
thats frustrating issues
 
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