Outlook – Shortcut to “Find Related Messages In Conversation”

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Using Outlook 2010, is it possible to bind a keyboard shortcut to the "Find Related -> Messages in this conversation" functionality?

I've tried the "Customize Ribbon" and "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" options to try to get a button that could be bound to an Alt-key combination, but I am unable to find the "Find Related" command, let alone the "Messages in this conversation" subcommand in the list of available commands. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know whether a macro could be created and bound to a key combination.

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The name of the function that you are looking for to add to the "Quick Access Toolbar" is "Messages in this Conversation". Note that you can only add that to the toolbar for a message item rather than the main Outlook window. Once you have added it, you can do the Alt-number combination to fire it up from the keyboard.

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