Mail app is one of the most used built-in apps in Windows 10. It offers almost everything that you would need to manage your email accounts.
If you have added one or more email accounts to the Mail and regularly use Windows 10 Mail app, you might want to know the keyboard shortcuts available in the Mail app to read, replay and forward email faster.
There are over 20 useful keyboard shortcuts in the Mail app. You can use the keyboard shortcuts compose a new email, add attachments, forward emails, send emails, and do much more.
Keyboard shortcuts for Windows 10 Mail app
Following are the useful keyboard shortcuts available in Windows 10 Mail app.
| Compose new email | Ctrl + N or Ctrl + Shift + M |
| Mark as read | Ctrl + Q |
| Mark as unread | Ctrl + U |
| Replay to currently open email | Ctrl + R |
| Replay to all | Ctrl + Shift + R |
| Forward currently open email | Ctrl + F |
| Search | Ctrl + E or F3 |
| Switch to inbox | Ctrl + Shift + I |
| Switch to outbox | Ctrl + Shift + O |
| Add attachment | Alt + I |
| Send composed email | Ctrl + Enter or Alt + S |
| Zoom in | Ctrl ++ |
| Zoom out | Ctrl – – |
| Manual sync | Ctrl + M or F9 |
| Delete a conversation | Ctrl + D or Del |
| Archive a conversation | Backspace |
| Accepting meeting invitation | Alt + C |
| Decline meeting invitation | Alt + D |
| Tentative meeting invitation | Al + N |
| Move to view | Ctrl + Shift + V |
| Switch to Calendar | Ctrl + 2 |
We will update this article if and when Microsoft adds new keyboard shortcuts to the Mail app.
Jerry Smith says
PLEASE…get rid of this piece of crap OUTLOOK …. it so screws up my applications… don;t you frigging people ever think of the users? Or just your greedy frigging CEO???
John Murchland says
This is less than half the keyboard shortcuts in Mail. It has many editing shortcuts, probably the same as in Wordpad.
I found a number by trial-and-error. For instance Ctrl+ = for enter subscript mode. Same command to leave subscript mode. Ctrl + F for Find. Really, there is a whole set of these.
Although not part of Mail, it is very useful to copy characters from Character Map into an email. (Character Map lacks Help. It is often helpful to select ‘Group by;’ and then ‘Unicode Subrange’. Then click a wanted character, click Select and then Copy. The chosen characters can then be pasted into an email.)
Drewster says
I hit a keystroke combination and it prompted me for which account to send. Do you know that keyboard shortcut??
Jack says
Meanings of SOME keyboard shortcuts is obscure:-
In MAIL
Account Manual Sync Ctrl+M or F9
Move between regions F6
Should I press Fn +F in the above cases?