Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2
- Posted May 22nd, 2009 at 4:51 am by AndrewM
- Categories: All-New Mail, Tips & Tutorials
Last week we took a look at some of the keyboard shortcuts available in the all-new Yahoo! Mail. We looked at the basics: opening and closing a message, composing and sending, etc. Today I wanted to dive a little deeper and look at some shortcuts that really make Yahoo! Mail great and you incredibly productive.
Moving messages with a single keystroke:
Do you use personal folders to keep your mailbox organized? Did you know that the numbers 1-9 on your keyboard correspond to the first 9 of your folders? So when you’re finished reading a message, just press the right number and off it goes. No need to click and drag.
Here are some other quick tips for moving messages:
You can see which number your folder is by clicking the ‘Move’ button at the top of your mailbox. Your folders are listed in numerical order- If you want to make it even easier, just rename your folders and put a number in front of the folder name (i.e. 1 Family, 2 Orders, etc).
- If you like the idea of renaming folders use the F2 key to rename a folder
- Finally, 0 (zero) moves a message from any folder back to the Inbox
- We’ve stopped at 9. So if you want to move a message to the 10th folder in your list, you’ll have to grab that mouse.
Navigate your mailbox without a mouse:
One of the features that I think makes the new Yahoo! Mail so great is the ability to have multiple messages (tabs) open at the same time from right inside your mailbox. Using CTRL+] (that’s the right bracket key) will move from one tab to another (going from left to right). Need to go the other direction CTRL+[ (that’s the left bracket key).
No need to stop there. Hitting TAB will let your navigate all around your Mailbox. This time SHIFT+TAB sends you the other way around. Looking at your Inbox? Need to perform a search? Just hit SHIFT+TAB and your cursor goes into the search box. Type your query and hit Enter.
Just a reminder that the complete list of shortcuts can be found on our help site. And don’t forget you can always look at the tool-tips when you mouse over a link.
I hope you find these features as useful as I do. Every time I find that I have to use an email that isn’t Yahoo Mail (for testing purposes only, of course) I’m always disappointed when I can’t use my keyboard.
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- 26 Comments
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 am
Hey Andrew — what happened to the old reply inline feature? This is a far superior way to answer a series of questions in a reply, but is it gone simply because we want Yahoo Mail to behave like Outlook?
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 am
I would like to be alerted to incoming emails. I would also like a particular sender emails to be forwarded to me from another email address with the permission of the person originally receiving email. Can you help me?
Judy
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:06 am
Great feature on the shortcuts and everything but are we going to get desktop imap any time this decade? Even if its just for paid accounts (which mine is) Im getting tired of my mobile phone (iphone) having better integration with my email than my mac.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Nice thing all these shortcuts but when are we gonna have the real features that a fine e-mail gives you.
You said you use sometimes other e-mail brands so you can see they all support IMAP and have larger attachment files more than just a 10MB and don’t have ads that disturb you reading the message you got, and this is all for free in those other e-mails.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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May 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Has the spam filter gone wonky? Why would mail titled “Sex Toys for Christians” ever show up in my inbox?
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
ANDREW
I notice YOU have a NICE GRAPHIC in your SIGNATURE. Did it ever occur to yahoo that the REST OF US who are PAYING for yahoo mail would like to be able to HAVE A GRAPHIC IN OUR SIGNATURE LINE?
This USED TO BE possible, but not anymore. Yahoo mail is falling further behind and so please TELL SOMEONE THAT YOUR CUSTOMERS WOULD LIKE FOR YAHOO TO START LISTENING TO THEM AGAIN.
Thank you
Braden
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Ich kann leider kein Englisch. Könnten Sie mir Ihren Bericht in dt. Sprache zusenden? Ich wäre sehr dankbar! So könnten wir auch besser zusammen arbeiten.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
For God’s sake I am so tired of dragging and dropping the column widths to fit the page. Why can’t you make the column widths fluid like every other mail on the planet???!!! Or at least make it remember where you dropped them for next log on.
I have a widescreen monitor and all my mail is bunched up on the left side because your columns always reset to this side. I drag and drop to adust the column widths only to have them reset on my next login. I am serisouly getting ready to dump Yahoo for Gmail b/c of this.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
This is the first time i am writing in a blog and i would like to know how does one start a blog and who does one send the blo to or does it stay here? I know iam giving a lot of peoplea good laugh but even after four years of having a computer all i have ever done was email with the kids and a few friends and one a food business that folded. I would like to know more and is therea site where i can learn more? I think blogging is great one can ask for and give information wow more than two heads are better than just the one.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I really like all the keyboard shortcuts!
Now, if only Yahoo mail would bring back the RSS reader!
May 25th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I like very much all the keyboard shortcuts there are a few I suggest you
gentlemen continue working on.. lewis
May 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I have been having alot of trouble with my yahoo emails. Seriously thinking going to some place else for emails. What has happened? I have trouble even sending out emails and also forwarding them.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Ah, there are ‘features coming soon’ with my AT&T Yahoo mail–that have been ‘coming soon’ for a couple years. “we’re still tweaking…’
Sorry- times up. What’s the deal? Two years?
May 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Interesting site, but much advertisments on him. Shall read as subscription, rss.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Yahoo! Mail would be better without having to pay to remove all the ads (and some a incredibly gross) that invade the account. Also free mail forwarding would be nice. GMail does it and so does Hotmail. I don’t understand why Yahoo! users have to pay to recieve a service that many other providers offer for free.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Why can’t I open Yahoo Mail.
Why can’t I even sign out.
It has worked only for 3 hours on Sunday the 24th in the last two weeks. It shows I have over 200 messages in there at the moment.
Why should I pay for an upgrade, when the standard won’t woem
Gary
May 27th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
What happened to Yahoo Mail.
I can’t even open my mailbox.
This sucks
Erina
May 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Does Yahoo have a feature to automatically resize photos to reduce the file size to email?
May 27th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Since having Yahoo it will not let me into my email. It says it doesn’t recognize my account most of the time. I must admit it raises my blood pressure to the limit
May 27th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
i cant open mail iether, thought it was me
May 28th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Dear Andrew, I am not that clever with PC’s but, I do know good solid advice when I read it. Thank you. I always refer to your pages to read and to learn more. Thank you. Best wishes.
May 28th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Andrew, Isn’t there a better way to prevwnt spammers than Carnegie Mellons lessons on the alphbet!!!! This is not only childish but miserably time consuming when emailing and or replying to email. Why do I pay comcast to use MacAfee to also help out?
Maybe alittle spot lite action from CMU? A grat university yes, screwing up my email is not humorous.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Are you aware of that Ymail doesn’t work with the latest iteration of Google Chrome (3.0.182.2).
Thanks.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Warning, off-topic…
All these “connections” features and “Apps”… are well and good, but when are we going to see some of the more basic necessities, such as an automatic IM log for an archive record of IM’s?
June 15th, 2009 at 5:20 am
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