One thing that has bothered me has been the lack of the Archive button to just move all of my email to my Archived email pst. There is a "Move to folder" button, but that is a two step proces.
In the name of efficiency I produced the following macro:
Sub Archive()
Dim objFolder As Outlook.Folder
Dim objNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim objItem As Object
Set objNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
'Get the correct "Archive" folder
Set objFolder = objNS.Folders("- Personal Folders 2011").Folders("Archived Inbox 2011")
If objFolder Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "This folder doesn't exist!", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation, "INVALID FOLDER"
Exit Sub
End If
If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then
'Require that this procedure be called only when a message is selected
Exit Sub
End If
For Each objItem In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
objItem.Move objFolder
Next
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objNS = Nothing
End Sub
Assigning this to a button on the toolbar is almost like archiving my email in Gmail. It isn't quite as efficient and searching isn't as easy if you're using outlook's search (I've given up on standard Microsoft search and replaced it with Google Desktop Search), but at least I have a "one click" button to move my email to my desired folder.
Now if only I could fix the rest of outlook.