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How to Use Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

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Do you enjoy clicking the Compose button in Yahoo! Mail, dragging messages to folders or selecting Mark as Unread from the More Actions toolbar item?

If you do, keep doing these things! If these activities don't make you happy in themselves and you do them many a times per day and there was a faster way to accomplish them, would you like to know that avenue?

Yahoo! Mail no only comes with an easy desktop program-like interface that allows for mouse pointing and clicking, it also includes countless keyboard shortcuts that can be faster for essential actions you take over and over — especially if you have your fingers hovering above the keyboard anyway.

Use Yahoo! Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

To do things fast in Yahoo! Mail, remember the following keyboard shortcuts.

On the Home Tab or Viewing a Folder

New email message: N
New email message (in a separate browser window): Shift-N
New instant messaging chat: C
Check for new mail (in your Yahoo! Mail account): M
Check for new mail (in all accounts): Shift-M
Select all emails: Ctrl-A
Go to the tab to the right: Ctrl-]
Go to the tab to the left: Ctrl-[

With a Message is Open or Checked in the List

Reply by email: R
Reply by email (in a separate browser window): Shift-R
Delete the message: Del
Move the message: D (use the arrow keys to select the desired target folder, then hit Enter)
Move the message to a specific folder: 1 to 9 (1 moves to the first folder in the list under Folders, 2 to the second, and so on)
Reply to all by email: A
Reply to all by email (in a separate browser window): Shift-A
Forward by email: F
Forward by email (in a separate browser window): Shift-F
Mark the message as unread: Shift-K
Mark the message as read: K
Flag the message for follow-up: L
Remove an existing flag from the message: Shift-L
Print the message: P