Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 178 Thunderbird 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Ctrl+N — New message
- Ctrl+M — New message
- Ctrl+R — Reply to Message (sender only)
- Ctrl+Shift+R — Reply to All in Message (sender and all recipients)
- Ctrl+Shift+L — Reply to List
- Ctrl+L — Forward Message
- Ctrl+E — Edit Message as New
- F5 — Get New Messages for Current Account
- F9 — Get New Messages for Current Account
- Shift+F5 — Get New Messages for All Accounts
- Shift+F9 — Get New Messages for All Accounts
- Ctrl+O — Open message (in new window or tab)
- Enter — Open message (in new window or tab)
- Ctrl+Shift+O — Open message in conversation
- Ctrl+Equal — Zoom In
- Ctrl+Equal — Zoom In
- Ctrl+Minus — Zoom Out
- Ctrl+0 — Reset Zoom
- ArrowRight — Expand Collapsed Thread
- ArrowLeft — Collapse Expanded Thread
- Backslash — Collapse All Threads
- K — Newsgroups: Ignore or Unignore Thread
- Shift+K — Newsgroups: Ignore or Unignore Subthread
- W — Newsgroups: Watch Thread
- Ctrl+P — Print message or selected message text
- Ctrl+S — Save Message as File
- Ctrl+U — View Message Source
- Ctrl+A — Select All (messages, text, or attachments)
- Ctrl+Shift+A — Select Thread
- F7 — Toggle Caret browsing (select text with keyboard)
- Ctrl+C — Copy selected text
- Ctrl+X — Cut selected search text
- Ctrl+V — Paste text into search or filter fields
- Ctrl+Shift+M — Move/Copy message to previous target folder Again
- A — Archive Message
- Delete — Delete selected element
- Shift+Delete — Delete message bypassing trash (no Undo!)
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+Y — Redo
- F2 — Rename Folder
- 1 — Add/Remove Tag
- 2 — Add/Remove Tag
- 9 — Add/Remove Tag
- 0 — Remove All Tags from Message
- M — Mark Message as Read/Unread
- R — Mark Thread as Read
- Shift+C — Mark All Read
- C — Mark as Read By Date
- J — Mark as Junk
- Shift+J — Mark as Not Junk
- S — Add/Remove Star
- Ctrl+K — Search All Messages of All Accounts
- Ctrl+Shift+K — Quick Filter
- Escape — Clear current Quick Filter; hide Quick Filter Bar
- Ctrl+Shift+F — Search Messages (advanced search in folder)
- Ctrl+F — Find Text in Current Message
- Ctrl+G — Find Again in Current Message
- F3 — Find Again in Current Message
- Ctrl+Shift+G — Find Previous in Current Message
- Shift+F3 — Find Previous in Current Message
- Alt+Home — Go to Mail Start Page
- Space — Scroll Down Current Message and go to next Unread
- F — Go to Next Message
- B — Go to Previous Message
- N — Go to Next Unread Message
- P — Go to Previous Unread Message
- T — Go to Next Unread Thread (and mark current as read)
- BracketRight — Go to Next Viewed Message
- BracketLeft — Go to Previous Viewed Message
- Tab — Move to Next UI Element
- Shift+Tab — Move to Previous UI Element
- F6 — Move to Next Mail Pane
- Shift+F6 — Move to Previous Mail Pane
- Ctrl+Tab — Next Tab
- Ctrl+PageDown — Next Tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab — Previous Tab
- Ctrl+PageUp — Previous Tab
- Alt+1 — Mail & Newsgroups Home Tab (Tab 1)
- Alt+1 — Tab 2 to 8
- Alt+2 — Tab 2 to 8
- Alt+8 — Tab 2 to 8
- Alt+9 — Last Tab
- Ctrl+Shift+B — Address Book
- Ctrl+J — Saved Files
- F1 — Help
- Ctrl+Shift+I — Developer Tools
- F8 — Toggle Message Pane
- Ctrl+W — Close window or tab
- Ctrl+Shift+T — Undo close tab
- Ctrl+Q — Quit Thunderbird (Exit Application)
- Ctrl+N — New message (see Starting a new message)
- Ctrl+M — New message (see Starting a new message)
- Ctrl+S — Save Draft
- Ctrl+P — Print Draft
- Ctrl+Enter — Send Message Now
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter — Send Message Later
- F9 — Toggle Contacts Sidebar
- F6 — Move to next main UI element
- Ctrl+Tab — Move to next main UI element
- Shift+F6 — Move to previous main UI element
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab — Move to previous main UI element
- Ctrl+Equal — Zoom In
- Ctrl+Equal — Zoom In
- Ctrl+Minus — Zoom Out
- Ctrl+0 — Reset Zoom
- Alt+M — Toggle Attachment Pane
- Ctrl+1 — Show Main Mail Window (Mail & Newsgroups)
- Ctrl+C — Copy
- Ctrl+X — Cut
- Ctrl+V — Paste
- Ctrl+Shift+O — Paste as quotation
- Ctrl+Shift+V — Paste without formatting
- Ctrl+R — Rewrap message text
- Delete — Delete selected text, attachment, etc.
- Ctrl+Delete — Delete word to the right
- Ctrl+Backspace — Delete word to the left
- Ctrl+A — Select All (text in a message, or attachments)
- Ctrl+K — Insert Link
- Ctrl+Shift+K — Discontinue Link, or Remove Links from selection
- Ctrl+Shift+R — Remove Named Anchors
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+Y — Redo
- Ctrl+H — Find and Replace Text in Current Message
- Ctrl+G — Find Again in Current Message
- F3 — Find Again in Current Message
- Ctrl+Shift+G — Find Previous in Current Message
- Shift+F3 — Find Previous in Current Message
- Ctrl+Shift+P — Check Spelling
- Ctrl+Shift+A — Attach File
- F2 — Rename Attachment
- Alt+X — Reorder Attachments
- Shift+Enter — Insert a line break instead of a new paragraph
- Alt+Home — Move to Top
- Alt+ArrowUp — Move Up
- Alt+ArrowLeft — Move together
- Alt+ArrowDown — Move Down
- Alt+End — Move to Bottom
- Alt+Y — Sort (All attachments or selected attachments)
- Ctrl+Period — Larger Font Size
- Ctrl+Comma — Smaller Font Size
- Ctrl+B — Text Style Bold
- Ctrl+I — Text Style Italics
- Ctrl+U — Text Style Underline
- Ctrl+T — Text Style "<tt>Fixed Width</tt>"
- Ctrl+Shift+Y — Discontinue or Remove Text Styles
- Ctrl+Space — Discontinue or Remove Text Styles
- Ctrl+BracketRight — Increase Indent
- Ctrl+BracketLeft — Decrease Indent
- Ctrl+N — New Address Book Contact
- Ctrl+M — Write new message to selected contact(s)
- Ctrl+Shift+F — Addressbook Advanced Search
- Ctrl+I — Edit Properties of selected contact or address book
- Ctrl+A — Select all (contacts, or search text)
- Ctrl+P — Print selected contacts
- Delete — Delete (selected text, contact, or address book)
- Ctrl+1 — Show Main Mail Window (Mail & Newsgroups)
- Escape — Clear current Events Filter
- Alt+End — Go to Today
- Alt+1 — Day View
- Alt+2 — Week View
- Alt+3 — Multiweek View
- Alt+4 — Month View
- Ctrl+Shift+K — Filter Tasks
- Escape — Clear current Tasks Filter
- F11 — Show or hide Today Pane
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Calendar tab
- Ctrl+Shift+D — Tasks tab
- Alt+1 — Mail & Newsgroups Home Tab (Tab 1)
- Ctrl+I — New Event
- Ctrl+D — New Task
- Ctrl+C — Copy (selected events, tasks, or text)
- Ctrl+X — Cut (selected events, tasks, or text)
- Ctrl+V — Paste
- Delete — Delete (selected events, tasks, or text)
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+Y — Redo
- Ctrl+P — Print
- Ctrl+Shift+Delete — Clear History
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