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40+Useful Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts


If you want to truly master Gmail and boost your email productivity, you need to memorize all of its keyboard shortcuts. These help you navigate, compose, and format with ease. You can get more done when you spend less time moving and clicking your mouse.

To help you out, we've rounded up every Gmail keyboard shortcut. Keep this list by your side and soon the shortcuts will become second nature.

 

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Before you begin, some keyboard shortcuts won't work if you haven't enabled a specific Gmail setting. Follow these steps to enable all keyboard shortcuts:

  1. Go to Gmail and click Settings (cog icon) in the top-right.
  2. Click See all settings.
  3. Scroll down to the Keyboard shortcuts section and select Keyboard shortcuts on.
  4. Finally, at the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail

Shortcut

Action

Quick Navigation

G + A

Go to All Mail

G + C

Go to Contacts

G + D

Go to Drafts

G + I

Go to Inbox

G + K

Go to Tasks

G + S

Go to Starred conversations

G + T

Go to Sent messages

G + B

Go to Snoozed messages

G + L

Initiate label search

G + N

Go to next page

G + P

Go to previous page

U

Go back to threadlist

K

Go to newer conversation

J

Go to older conversation

` (Backtick)

Go to next Inbox section

~ (Tilde)

Go to previous Inbox section

/ (Slash)

Go to search box

Enter

Open conversation

. (Period)

Open More menu

Reading Messages

X

Select conversation

R

Reply

A

Reply all

E

Archive

F

Forward

M

Mute conversation

N

Next message in open conversation

P

Previous message in open conversation

S

Toggle star

Z

Undo last action

!

Report as spam

#

Delete

B

Snooze

V

Open Move To menu

L

Open Label As menu

, (Comma)

Move focus to toolbar

- (Minus)

Mark as not important

= (Equal)

Mark as important

; (Semicolon)

Expand entire conversation

: (Colon)

Collapse entire conversation

_ (Underscore)

Mark currently open message as unread

[

Archive conversation and go to previous message

]

Archive conversation and go to next message

Shift + R

Reply in a new window

Shift + A

Reply all in a new window

Shift + F

Forward in a new window

Shift + I

Mark as read

Shift + U

Mark as unread

Shift + N

Update conversation

Shift + T

Add conversation to Tasks

Composition

C

Compose message

D

Compose message in new tab

Esc

Focus on latest chat or compose

Cmd/Ctrl + K

Insert a link

Cmd/Ctrl + M

Open spelling suggestions

Cmd + ;

Go to the next misspelled word (Mac only)

Cmd/Ctrl + Enter

Send

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + B

Add BCC recipients

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + C

Add CC recipients

Shift + Esc

Focus on main window

Ctrl + .

Move to the next chat or compose

Ctrl + ,

Move to the previous chat or compose

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + F

Access custom from

Formatting

Cmd/Ctrl + B

Bold

Cmd/Ctrl + I

Italics

Cmd/Ctrl + U

Underline

Cmd/Ctrl + [

Indent less

Cmd/Ctrl + ]

Indent more

Cmd/Ctrl + \

Remove formatting

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + 7

Numbered list

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + 8

Bulleted list

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + 9

Quote

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + E

Align center

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + L

Align left

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + R

Align right

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + 5

Previous font

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + 6

Next font

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + +

Increase text size

Shift + Cmd/Ctrl + -

Decrease text size

Conversation Selection

* + A

Select all conversations

* + N

Deselect all conversations

* + S

Select starred conversations

* + T

Select unstarred conversations

* + R

Select read conversations

* + U

Select unread conversations


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