Outlook for Mac - archive single email with a keyboard shortcut
Can be done via Keyboard Shortcuts
under System Preferences
Manually move the email once to the folder that you want, say Archives
by right-clicking the email and choose it or using Shift Cmd M
. After that Archives
will start showing as one of the options when you try to another move email.
Once you’ve moved the message the folder becomes a recent item under the Move menu button in Outlook and a keyboard shortcut can now be assigned to it.
Open Keyboard Shortcuts
under System Preferences
and assign your favourite keyboard shortcut e.g. Control-Option-A
to move messages to this folder (Archives
).
This isn't exactly the question you asked, but Ctrl-e is the keyboard shortcut for archiving a message (at least as of Outlook for Mac version 15.36).