Essential keyboard shortcuts to speed life up

[Rob Clarke]

Check these keyboard shortcuts to make emailing easier in gmail…

Google’s gmail app has a plethora of useful keyboard shortcuts to make dealing with email quicker and more efficient, giving you time to spend on other tasks.

This tip is especially useful for those users who are working from laptops or are have lots of email to deal with.

To access keyboard shortcuts, first you need to enable keyboard shortcuts from within the General section of your email Settings.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the gear icon top right of your gmail inbox.
2. Go to Settings and the General Settings panel will appear.
3. Scroll down and enable the ‘Keyboard shortcuts on‘ radio button.
4. Click this, then scroll down and save your updated settings.

Viola! Now once it saves go back to your inbox and try out some of these shortcuts which will save you LOTS OF TIME throughout the year.

Here is a list of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts:

   c = compose

   r = reply

   f = forward

   a = reply all

   e = archive

   Cmd (or Cntrl on Windows)+ Enter = send

   # = delete

   g then i = go to inbox

   Shift+? = show all shortcuts

Click here to download a printable label for your computer (this will fit beside the trackpad on a laptop if you make a copy for each staff member also).

• This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Rob Clarke.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Rob Clarke.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Rob Clarke.
• This topic was modified 7 years ago by Rob Clarke.

[Anna Powrie]

Brilliant thanks – will print out tomorrow and share with the staff!

Anna 🙂

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