Hotmail keyboard shortcuts: the full list

Learn how to perform keyboard acrobatics with Windows Live Hotmail. Speed up the way you work and mail.

Many things on your computer can be performed much quicker using keyboard shortcuts. From simple stuff like pressing the Windows key to open the Start menu, to more complicated things like the well-known emergency shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Delete—shortcuts are fast and easy. Make use of keyboard shortcuts in Windows Live Hotmail, too!

Here is the complete list of keyboard shortcuts to use within the Windows Live Hotmail web app:

To do this

Press this

Delete a message

Delete

Create a new message

Ctrl+N

Send a message

Ctrl+Enter

Open a message

Ctrl+Shift+O

Print a message

Ctrl+Shift+P

Reply to a message

Ctrl+R

Reply all to a message

Ctrl+Shift+R

Forward a message

Ctrl+Shift+F

Save a draft message

Ctrl+S

Flag a message for follow up

Mark a message as junk

Ctrl+Shift+J

Mark a message as read

Ctrl+Q

Mark a message as unread

Ctrl+U

Move to a folder

Ctrl+Shift+V

Open the next message

Ctrl+.

Open the previous message

Ctrl+,

Close a message

Esc

Search your email messages

Check spelling

Select all

S then A

Deselect all

S then N

Go to the inbox

F then I

Go to your Drafts folder

F then D

Go to your Sent folder

F then S