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creating and sending messages in Gmail Is easy and is even easier with the help
of a few keyboard shortcuts keyboard shortcuts can quicken the creation and
sending process and make you more proficient using Gmail in general before you can begin using keyboard shortcuts however you'll need to turn them on to
determine whether keyboard shortcuts areon or not look in your inbox for a thin
blue vertical line at the beginning one of your messages in most cases
you'll find the line on the first message if you see the blue line
keyboard shortcuts are on if you don't see the line press and hold the shift key and then press the question mark key this keyboard combination displays the keyboard shortcut overlay screen here you can see all the Gmail keyboard shortcuts you don't need to memorize
them all right away just try and learn and master a few week click enable to
turn on your shortcuts you can come back
to this screen at any time to disable them as well click close or press the
Escape key the keyboard shortcut to hide
the overlay screen you should now see
the blue line in your inbox to inform you your keyboard shortcuts are on if
you don't click the Refresh icon or refresh your browser
to test your shortcuts use the J and theK keys to move the blue line up and down
in the inbox the blue line indicates
that that particular message is in focuand that you can take action on it to
test this use the J and K keys to focus
on a particular message then press the X
key the X key selects the message press the X key again to deselect the message
now that you've used a few shortcuts
let's compose a message to begin a new email message click compose to display
the compose window or using keyboard shortcuts just type the letter C Gmail
displays the compose window over your
inbox and places the focus of your
curse in the to field here you can
enter the names or email addresses of the people or groups you want to send
the message to just enter a few letters
of either their name or email address if
the individual exists in your contact
list or you've sent the individual messages before their name and email
address display in a selection pane below the to field if you see the
individual you want to send the message to listed use your down and up arrow
keys to highlight the individual and
press Enter or using your cursor select their name from the list in some
instances you may notice a division line in the selection pane names above th
line exist in your personal contact list
all names below the line exist in your organization's global address list if
the user does not appear in either
section type in their full email address
after you've added all the recipients press tab or click in the subject field
to enter the subject of your message
enter a short concise title for your message one that informs the recipients
about the content of the message to
start your message press tab again or click in the main body of the message
window type in your message there it's
done and looks great but gmail gives you
plenty of options to enhance yourmessagerich formatting to display the email
enhancement options if they're not
already displayed with the formatting options you can bold words or sections
change the color and size of your font
or create links to take your users to a
document video or website and if you need to add an attachment
click attach a file you can add as many
attachments as needed as long as the total of all the attachments and the
content of the email itself is less than
25 megabytes when you're ready to send
your message click send or use the
keyboard shortcuts tab and enter tab places the focus of your cursor on the
send button and enter sends the message
in this short video we've shown you a
few keyboard shortcuts you can use to quickly create and send messages but
there are many more shortcuts you can use to become even more proficient using
Gmail just use shift in question mark to
display your keyboard shortcuts and
remember you don't need to memorize the mall right away just master a few a week
and in no time you'll be a gmail master
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