I'm trying to figure out how to select different account inboxes in Microsoft Outlook, using my voice, rather than the mouse.

I'm using Outlook 2019, locally installed on my Windows 10 PC. I have three different email accounts that feed into Outlook. In the Inbox view in Outlook, I can see all three accounts, but I can't figure out a way to navigate among them. There don't seem to be any keyboard shortcuts that enable me to move among the inboxes, and I can't figure out the VBA code that would work.

I've done some research, but can't find any examples of how to do this, except by mouse. This strikes me as very user unfriendly programming by Microsoft, but in general Outlook suffers from that problem.

Anybody have any suggestions?

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Sub Main
SendKeys "^y"
Wait 0.5
SendKeys "{Home}"
Wait 0.1
SendKeys "i{Right}"
Wait 0.3
SendKeys ListVar1
Wait 0.5
SendKeys "{Enter}"
End Sub

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Sub Main
SendKeys "^y"
Wait 0.5
SendKeys "{Home}"
Wait 0.1
SendKeys "i{Right}"
Wait 0.3
SendKeys ListVar1
Wait 0.5
SendKeys "{Enter}"
End Sub

Thanks, Lunis! I did not know or had forgotten about the "^y" trick. It looks like that will work, with a little bit of modification so that you can dictate something that will then trigger the long email address of the account name, so probably need to use a spoken form/written form List.

Use VBA, nothing user unfriendly about Microsoft APIs, here is a script I did many years ago which will go to the support@pcbyvoice.com inbox, just adapt for your email addresses using ListVars. Remember to set the reference to the Microsoft Outlook object library, just tested it with office 19 and it still works fine today.

'Script by Lindsay Adam pcbyvoice @2010
Sub Main
 Dim expl As Object
 Dim inbox As Object
 Dim ns As Object
 Dim accountFound As Boolean
 accountFound = False

 On Error Resume Next

  For Each oAccount In Application.Session.Accounts
    Set expl = Application.ActiveExplorer
    Set ns = Application.Session
    If oaccount = "support@pcbyvoice.com" Then
      accountFound = True
      Set goToFolder = oAccount.DeliveryStore.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
      If goToFolder Is Nothing Then
       MsgBox "Target folder not found!", vbOkOnly
      End If
      Set expl.CurrentFolder  = goToFolder
      expl.CurrentFolder.Display
      If (accountFound = True) Then
        Exit For
      End If
    End If
 Next

End Sub

'Script by Lindsay Adam pcbyvoice @2010
Sub Main
 Dim expl As Object
 Dim inbox As Object
 Dim ns As Object
 Dim accountFound As Boolean
 accountFound = False

 On Error Resume Next

  For Each oAccount In Application.Session.Accounts
    Set expl = Application.ActiveExplorer
    Set ns = Application.Session
    If oaccount = "support@pcbyvoice.com" Then
      accountFound = True
      Set goToFolder = oAccount.DeliveryStore.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
      If goToFolder Is Nothing Then
       MsgBox "Target folder not found!", vbOkOnly
      End If
      Set expl.CurrentFolder  = goToFolder
      expl.CurrentFolder.Display
      If (accountFound = True) Then
        Exit For
      End If
    End If
 Next

End Sub

Thanks, Lindsay! It figures that you would know the answer. I don't think VBA is all that user-friendly, but I don't have anything close to your programming skills.

I'll probably need to use a complex list, as I said in my response to Lunis, but with that modification this code should ork perfectly.

Matt