Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to forward instead of find?

It’s a widespread convention that the Ctrl+F 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’t. Why doesn’t Outlook get with the program?

Before clicking the link to go to the full story, try to guess the answer. I’m pretty sure you’re going to be wrong.

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