GMail Delete Keyboard Shortcut
ADVERTISEMENTSAmit Agarwal recently found a simple keyboard shortcut to delete email messages in Gmail that works across all web browsers.
If you are reading a message in GMail, press the # key (Shift+3) and that message will instantly move to Trash.
Alternatively, select one or more email messages in the GMail list view, press the same # hash key and all the selected GMail conversations will be deleted in one batch.
This secret keyboard shortcut is very useful, I wonder why Google decided not to share it with GMail users.
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Posted on March 29th, 2007 | Category: Google |
Everyday Weekender
March 30, 2007 at 5:22 am
cool thanks for the tip!… I wonder how many people have done this by accident though
Nirmal
March 30, 2007 at 11:47 am
Nice tip..I was wondering why there are no shortcuts for deleting mails when other have these shortcuts..thanks for the info.
Socca
March 30, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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I find them very useful and would like to try them out on promoting my football website.
I bookmarked your page instantly and will be coming back daily to check out on new articles.
Mr.Byte
March 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I wonder why they didn’t follow the normal convention by using the delete key…any everybody blames only Microsoft uses its own convention every time and they don’t follow standards.
Brown Baron
March 30, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Nice one. Even though Gmail has a lot of available space I still delete emails everyday and this will make it faster.
Garry
March 31, 2007 at 2:18 am
Great tips. Thanks. I have never got used to keeping my email. Once I read, I file it away or delete it. 9 out of 10 times, its in the trash.
Zigire
March 31, 2007 at 3:27 am
That’s a really odd keyboard shortcut!
Although by the time I’ve woken up tomorrow I’m sure to have forgotten it, so I’ll probably be clicking the ‘delete’ button
Robert Irizarry
March 31, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Cool tip! I’ve been making increasing use of my Gmail account and, as such, am looking for any ways to make it more efficient. Thanks!
Gili
April 2, 2007 at 2:46 am
This is a nice tip, Gmail has made publish their shortcuts but indeed this one is not present there.
Ashish Mohta
April 3, 2007 at 10:14 am
: Delete Keys are not to be used to often.There is always a reason to hide things which can remove things permanently.Thats the only reason they must have hide it.
sourcer
April 3, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Very useful tip.
Thanks John or should I say thanks Amit
morganusvitus
April 5, 2007 at 4:34 pm
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