Apple Mail is probably one of those apps you use a lot. While Mail is easy to use with most commands available through the menus, there are times when you can increase your productivity by using keyboard shortcuts to speed things up a bit.

You can print this shortcut list to use as a cheat sheet until the most common shortcuts become second nature. You should familiarize yourself with the modifier keys and their symbols that are used in the shortcuts. These are:

Use shortcuts in the Mail menu to open Mail preferences, hide Mail and other programs, quit Mail, and close Mail without changing current windows.

Shortcuts on the File menu open a new message or viewer window, open a selected message, close a window or all mail windows, save messages as, and print them.