Keyboard Shortcuts- Using the Same Ones in Your Gmail & Outlook

Hello and welcome to this video.

In this video, I demonstrate how you can use the same keyboard shortcuts to make things work in Gmail as you can in Outlook.

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Hello and welcome to this video.

I have made quite a few video demonstrating the different keyboard shortcuts that you can use to control Gmail- Google’s email service.

But, did you know that you can use the same keyboard shortcuts in Outlook as you do in Gmail?

Let me show you how.

Let’s just have a quick look at our shortcuts in Gmail.

From within your Gmail account, press the ? key and a full list appears. And it is a very full list.

Now to get the same keyboard shortcuts in our Gmail and Outlook accounts we need to change  a setting in our Outlook account.

So you can see here that I am signed into my Outlook account.

I then go to the top right hand corner and click on the settings menu.

Then in the middle of the next page I click on keyboard shortcuts and then we have a variety of options which include turning off the shortcuts or using the same shortcuts as those in Gmail.

Once you have selected, click on “save”.

And let’s just test a few shortcuts to see if they are the same.

In Google pressing g then i focuses you on the inbox and then pressing c will compose a new email.

And that is it. A quick video on getting the same keyboard shortcuts in our Gmail and Outlook accounts.

If you have any questions or want to join in with the discussion please do so below.

Have you got a favourite shortcut when you are using Gmail or Outlook? Tell me what it is.

Thanks for watching.

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