77 Keyboard Shortcuts For Gmail to Save Your Time

Gmail is the most popular, advanced, user-friendly and well featured email server that is used by a huge amount of people. Yesterday, I was talking about Facebook Shortcut Keys to save your time in Facebook. Luckily, Gmail also offers a series of keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail to move through the Gmail from the keyboard.
By default the Gmail keyboard shortcuts are disabled. Before starting, make sure you have enabled the “Keyboard Shortcut” for your account. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard Shortcuts and turn it on using the radio button.

Don’t forget to save the changes before you leave the “Settings” page. Once done, you can check the Gmail shortcuts which are listed in this article.
For instance, if you want to compose a mail, just press Shift + C from the keyboard when you’re in your Gmail account. It will open the composing interface as a pop-up window. There are so many Gmail keyboard shortcuts to ease your movement in Gmail. Here is the list.

Some Gmail Shortcuts you might not Know

A. Composing Mail:

1. To compose a mail press C. It will redirect you to the Gmail mail composer panel.
2. If you want to compose a mail staying at where you are at present, press Shift + C. It will open a new pop-up window with the composing panel.

B. Message management:

1. Go to Inbox: Press g then i.
2. Open starred conversations: Press g then s.
3. Go to Drafts: Press g then d.
4. Go to sent messages: Press g then t.
5. Go to all mails: Press g then a.

C. Contact management:

1. Go to Contacts: Tap g then c.
2. Select all the contacts: Tap * then a.
3. Deselect all the contacts: Tap * then n.
4. Delete contact: Tap #.

D. Contact navigation:

1. Go to next contact: Press k.
2. Go to previous contact: Press j.
3. Select or deselect an individual contact: Press x.
4. Open a contact: Press O or <Enter>.
5. Return to contact list: Press u.

E. Applications:

1. Search: Pressing “/” will take you to the Gmail search box and the cursor will blink there.
2. To focus chat contact search press q.
3. The ? will open the help window in Gmail.

F. Some Actions:

1. Escape from the input field: Press Esc.
2. More actions menu: Press .(Full-stop).
3. Move from the current group: Press e.
4. Undo the recently completed action: Press z.
5. Change group membership: Press l.

There are more Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail by which you can completely control the Gmail in your web browser just from the keyboard. Refer to the following lists.

The Complete List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail

Compose & Chat
Use the the following Gmail shortcuts when composing email messages or chatting into Gmail.

Formatting

Jumping

Threadlist selection

Navigation

Application

Actions

You can learn more about the Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts from here.
[Latest Gmail feature: Gmail Email Delegation]

Enabling Gmail Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Gmail has introduced a lab feature called as Custom keyboard shortcuts to customize the Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail. If you use some shortcuts frequently but do not feel comfortable with the combination, you can create your own shortcut combination by using this lab feature. It is not enabled by default. To enable it, sign-in to your Gmail account, click on the “Lab” sign

and enable the lab feature “Custom keyboard shortcut” from the list and save the changes by clicking the proper button.

This will add an additional “Keyboard shortcuts” tab.

You can only change the shortcuts assigned under “Action” list. Head to the “Keyboard Shortcut” tab which opens the “Current keyboard shortcut mapping” window.

Put your preferred key(s) at the white boxes and save the changes – you’re done!
How do you access your Gmail account – by mouse or by the Gmail keyboard shortcuts?