Understanding the key Gmail shortcuts can allow you to boost your output. In this post, we’ll explain which shortcuts might simplify your work and how to enable Gmail shortcuts.
Activating Gmail shortcuts
To take advantage of Gmail’s shortcuts, you must first turn them on. It’s fairly basic:
- Log in to your Gmail account.
- You should click on the top-right settings gear icon when it appears.
- Simply click “See all settings.”.
- Scroll down to find the section under “Keyboard shortcuts.”
- Pick “Keyboard shortcuts on.”.
- Click on “Save Changes” at the bottom.
Just doing this will enable you to utilize all Gmail’s shortcuts.
Crucial Gmail shortcuts
Let me now discuss a few of these short cuts that would simplify your job:
- To write a fresh email, just press ‘C’.
- Respond to an email by pressing ‘R’.
- To respond to all, press ‘A’.
- To forward an email, press “F.”
- Press ‘E’ to archive an email.
- Press “L” to label an email.
- To migrate and label an email, press ‘V’.
- A few more practical quick cuts
- To view all keyboard shortcuts, press ‘Shift +?’.
- Select several emails at once: Press and hold the ‘Shift’ key, then click on emails.
- Random email selection: Press and hold the ‘Command’ key, then click the emails.
- Press “Shift + 8 + u” to choose all unread emails.
- To designate some emails as particularly important: Press “‘=”
- To search emails: press /’
- To visit the task list, press ‘g + k’.
- To add an email to a task, press “Shift + t.”
Daily short cuts will help you to speed through your task. Though initially unusual, you will recall them in a few days, and your output will rise.
Recall that, should you ever forget any shortcut, hit “Shift +?”. Pressing displays a list of all the shortcuts. As you gradually become accustomed to all these shortcuts, using Gmail will become increasingly simple.
