How To Enable Gmail Style Keyboard Shortcuts In Outlook.com

An earlier post described how to turn on and use Gmail keyboard shortcuts. These can be a huge timesaver.

Similarly, Outlook.com supports the use of such keyboard shortcuts. To enable them :

1. Login to Outlook.com inbox and click on the gears icon, then choose “More mail settings”.

Outlook.com mail settings

2. From the “Customizing Outlook” section, select “Keyboard shortcuts”.

Keyboard shortcuts option in Outlook.com

3. Select “Gmail” as the shortcut mode from the bunch of options that are listed. The default mode is Outlook.com but using Gmail style shortcuts is simpler and many shortcuts used in Gmail can be used from Outlook.com. Save the changes.

Gmail style keyboard shortcuts in Outlook.com

4.  Now to take a look at these enabled shortcuts, press “Shift and ?”. The shortcut list will pop-up just like it does in Gmail.

Gmail style keyboard shortcuts list in Outlook.com

Happy emailing.

Comments are closed.