Whether you’re using the Mail app on a tablet, on a laptop or on a hybrid device, you could become much more productive by learning the keyboard shortcuts. When you have to deal with your email on a daily business it doesn’t become so absurd to know most of them. But since we don’t know what exactly you are going to use, find below all the shortcuts working in the Mail app for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. We have talked about some of the most important features that the Windows 8.1 Mail app brings for enterprise users and this list of keyboard shortcuts is definitely one of them. Brace yourself, as this is quite a long list. What you need to do to make it quicker is this – just search for your desired function in this article if you’re looking for one. So, here they are:

Ctrl+R – Reply Ctrl+Shift+R – Reply all Ctrl+F – Forward Ctrl+M – Move item to a different folder Ctrl+J – Toggle between marking a message as junk or not junk Ctrl+Shift+U – Show only unread messages Ctrl+Shift+A – Show all messages Ctrl+Shift+E – Show Folder options Ctrl+U – Mark as unread, Underline text (When you’re writing an email) Ctrl+Q – Mark as read Ctrl+A – Select all messages, Insert, Toggle between Flag and Remove flag for messages Ctrl+N – New Message F5 – Sync Alt+B – Put focus on the bcc button Alt+C – Put focus on the cc button, Accept Alt+D – Decline Alt+T – Put focus on the To button, Tentative Alt+V – Open the invitation in Calendar Alt+S – Send mail Ctrl+O – Opens message in a new window Ctrl+Alt+S – Gives you an options to delete one or all messages from a particular sender Alt+I – Insert attachment Ctrl+Shift+F – Select a font Ctrl+Spacebar – Clear formatting Ctrl+Y – Redo F4 – Redo Ctrl+[ – Decrease font size one point Ctrl+] – Increase font size one point Ctrl+Shift+, -Decrease font size Ctrl+Shift+. – Increase font size Ctrl+K – Add a link Ctrl+E – Center Ctrl+L – Indent left Ctrl+R – Indent right Ctrl+Shift+L – Bullets Ctrl+M – Indent when text is selected Ctrl+Shift+M – Outdent Tab or Shift+Tab – Indent/outdent when text is selected or when focus is in a list Shift+Tab – When focus is not in a list, cycle through tabs in reverse order. Ctrl+’ – Acute accent Ctrl+, – Cedilla accent Ctrl+Shift+6 – Circumflex accent Ctrl+Shift+; – Diaeresis accent Ctrl+ – Grave accent Ctrl+Shift+7 – Ligature accent Ctrl+Shift+2 – Ring accent Ctrl+/ – Slash accent Ctrl+Shift+- Tilde accent Alt+Ctrl+Shift+1 – Inverted exclamation mark Alt+Ctrl+Shift+/ – Inverted question mark Ctrl+Shift+S – Sweep Ctrl+E – Search Ctrl + Z – Undo Ctrl + B – Bold Ctrl + I – Italicize Ctrl + U – Underline Ctrl + C – Copy Ctrl + V – Paste Ctrl + S – Save draft F6 – When writing an email, shifts focus to the send button

Phew, quite the list, am I right? Now, let us know which of the above keyboard shortcuts in the Windows 8 Mail app you are really going to use, since it’s impossible to believe someone could know and use them all.

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