How to Use Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts?

While most of us are used to moving mouse and clicking around the screen, sometime things can be done faster if you use the preset shortcut keys. Similarly, for those who spent a lot of time in your G mail, the following shortcut keys will definitely be of great use to you.

To become a G mail power user, you’ll need to master G mail’s keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to speed through your mail faster than you can click. G mail even lets you create custom keyboard shortcuts.

To enable keyboard shortcuts, pull up G mail’s settings page from the gear menu.

Select the “Keyboard shortcuts on” option on the General pane, and then click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

Press Shift-? to view the built-in cheat sheet after enabling keyboard shortcuts.

Included Shortcut Keys:- 8f609278d38fc0e31ebc67a056f1a3fdb00f746cea91e57a5b

Key	Action
Shift+j	Move down in the list, selecting the next message as well.
Shift+K	Move up in the list, selecting the next message above as well.
Shift + U	Marks the selected message(s) as unread
Shift + I	Marks the selected message(s) as read
shift+r	Reply to sender in new window.
shift+A	Reply to all in new window.
shift+U / shift+I	Mark selected messages as unread / Mark selected messages as read.
shift+F	Forward message in new window.
shift+ENTER	Edit task details, including due date or notes.
shift+ESC	Shift the cursor from tasks to Gmail, but only one-way.
shift+T	Add message(s) to tasks.
shift+N	Update conversation with new messages if there are any.
Shift+I	Mark the message as read.
Shift+U	Mark the message as unread.
ctrl+R	Refresh page. Sometimes GMail seems to get stuck on certain pages won't allow shortcuts. Things tend to work fine after a page refresh.
Ctrl+S	Save draft
ctrl+S	Save Message. Cursor should be in field.
ctrl+[ / ctrl+]	Remove from current view and move to older / move to newer message (won't delete message, just changes view).
ctrl+{ / ctrl+}	Archive and move to older message / move to newer message.
Period(.)	Open the message context menu.
n	Next message in a conversation
p	Previous message in a conversation
v	Open the Move message dialog.
f	Forward message.
j	Move down in the list to the next message.
k	Move up in the list to the next message.
o	Open the message.
K	Selects the next conversation in the Thread Pane
J	Selects the previous conversation in the Thread Pane
N	Selects the next message in the selected thread
P	Selects the previous message in the selected thread
u	Return to conversation list
y	Archive the current conversation
e	Archive selected messages.
s	Star a message or conversation
x	Select the current conversation
/	Search
c	Compose
u	Return to inbox or conversation list.
#	Delete selected message and jump back to the message list.
v	Move selected message.
l	Add label to message, opens label menu and jump back to the message list.
a	Reply to all.
r	Reply to sender.
!	Mark selected messages as spam and jump back to the message list.
m	Mute selected message and jump back to the message list.
z	Undo previous action.
x	Select or unselect current conversation.
q	Move cursor to chat search.
?	Displays the keyboard shortcuts help menu.
c	Compose a new message.
f	Forward message.
/	Move to Search Mail field.
s	Star or unstar message.
y	Remove from current view and jump back to the message list.
r	Reply
a	Reply All
f	Forward
j / k	Move to next (older) / move to previous (newer) e-mail or conversation.
n / p	Move to next part / previous part of conversation in message.
e or [	Archive selected messages and jump back to the message list.
Tab, Enter	Send
Esc	Reset state. Often necessary before using a Keyboard Shortcut to move out of the current task or field.
tab, then enter	When logging in to Gmail: Start typing user name followed by tab, type password then press enter. Some browsers may require two tabs, then enter after typing the password.
alt+Left arrow / alt+Right arrow	One page back / one page forward
end / home	Jump to beginning of page / end of page.
page up / page down	Jump one page up / one page down.
alt+d, then multiple tab's	Move the focus of the browser to the main window. Jumps to the address bar first, then through toolbars until landing at the main window.
tab / shift+Tab	Jump forward / jump backwards between input fields.
g, then i	Go to inbox.
g, then s	Go to starred conversations.
g, then t	Go to sent mail.
g, then d	Go to drafts.
g, then k	Go to task window or opens task window (see limitations above)
g, then a	Go to all mail.
g, then c	Go to contacts.
g, then l	Go to label. Use arrow keys from here.
*, then a / *, then n	Select all conversations / Un select all conversations.
*, then r / *, then u	Select all read conversations / Select all unread conversations.
*, then s / *, then t	Select all starred conversations / Select all unstarred conversations.
o or enter	Open message.
arrow keys	Move cursor up and down in task list.
ctrl+Up / ctrl+Down	Move current task up and down in task list.
a...z or others	Edit Task

Shortcuts for G mail Tasks seem to be a bit buggy. shift+T adds message to the task list, but the focus never makes it to the task window. There seems to be no way to re-gain focus after. Page refresh with f5 and g, then k does the trick but is not pretty.