Gmail keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 89 Gmail 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- P — Previous message in an open conversation
- N — Next message in an open conversation
- Shift+Escape — Focus main window
- Escape — Focus latest chat or compose
- Ctrl+Period — Advance to the next chat or compose
- Ctrl+Enter — Send
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Add cc recipients
- Ctrl+Shift+B — Add bcc recipients
- Ctrl+Shift+F — Access custom from
- Ctrl+K — Insert a link
- Meta+Semicolon — Go to next misspelled word (Mac only)
- Ctrl+M — Open spelling suggestions
- Ctrl+Shift+5 — Previous font
- Ctrl+Shift+6 — Next font
- Ctrl+Shift+Minus — Decrease font size
- Ctrl+B — Bold
- Ctrl+I — Italics
- Ctrl+U — Underline
- Ctrl+Shift+7 — Numbered list
- Ctrl+Shift+8 — Bulleted list
- Ctrl+Shift+9 — Quote
- Ctrl+BracketLeft — Indent less
- Ctrl+BracketRight — Indent more
- Ctrl+Shift+L — Align left
- Ctrl+Shift+E — Align center
- Ctrl+Shift+R — Align right
- Ctrl+Backslash — Remove formatting
- X — Select conversation
- S — Toggle star or rotate among superstars
- E — Archive
- M — Mute conversation
- Shift+1 — Report as spam
- Shift+3 — Delete
- R — Reply
- Shift+R — Reply in a new window
- A — Reply all
- Shift+A — Reply all in a new window
- F — Forward
- Shift+F — Forward in a new window
- Shift+N — Update conversation
- Z — Undo last action
- Shift+I — Mark as read
- Shift+U — Mark as unread
- Shift+Minus — Mark unread from the selected message
- Equal — Mark as important
- Minus — Mark as not important
- B — Snooze
- Semicolon — Expand entire conversation
- Shift+Semicolon — Collapse entire conversation
- Shift+T — Add conversation to tasks
- M — Show menu
- A — Show archived hangouts
- I — Show hangout requests
- C — Focus on the conversation list
- P — Open phone
- G — Go to inbox
- G — Go to starred conversations
- G — Go to snoozed conversations
- G — Go to sent messages
- G — Go to drafts
- G — Go to all mail
- G — Go to tasks
- G — Go to label
- Shift+A — Select all conversations
- Shift+N — Deselect all conversations
- Shift+R — Select read conversations
- Shift+U — Select unread conversations
- Shift+S — Select starred conversations
- Shift+T — Select unstarred conversations
- N — Go to next page
- P — Go to previous page
- U — Back to threadlist
- K — Newer conversation
- J — Older conversation
- Enter — Open conversation
- Backquote — Go to next inbox section
- Shift+Backquote — Go to previous inbox section
- C — Compose
- D — Compose in a new tab
- Slash — Search mail
- G — Search chat contacts
- Period — Open more actions menu
- V — Open move to menu
- L — Open label as menu
- Ctrl+Comma — Advance to previous chat or compose
- Ctrl+Shift+Equal — Increase text size
- Comma — Move focus to toolbar
- BracketRight — Archive conversation and go previous/next
- Ctrl+Alt+Comma — Switch between the Calendar/Keep/Tasks sidebar and your inbox.
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