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How to indent a bulleted list in Gmail message editor with Mac, Chrome & Finnish keyboard?

Bulleted list can be toggled with Shift+⌘+8 -> Works OK.

Gmail editor's button has tooltip with shortcuts ⌘+[ (indent) ⌘+] (de-indent). However, I haven't been able to succesfully do that since in Mac Chrome those shortcuts are mapped for for History -> Back & History -> Forward

Something I've tried:

  • Plain [ & ] can be entered with Alt+7 & Alt+8 on my keyboard
  • ⌘+[ & ⌘+]: History -> Back & History -> Forward
  • Alt+⌘+7 / Alt+⌘+8 : Nothing
  • Shift+Alt+⌘+7 / Shift+Alt+⌘+7 : Selects previous/next tab
  • ⌘+7 : Changes to 7th tab
  • ⌘+/ (in Finnish keyboard ⌘+Shift7) : Opens "Help" menu at Mac menu bar.

Not so crucial but would speed up email writing every now and then.

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  • BTW: I tried to tag this with "indentation" & "finnish-keyboard" but don't have enough reputation here. Please feel free to tag with those if you think those would be relevant :)
    – Touko
    Oct 23, 2013 at 7:49
  • I have the same problem with my German Mac keyboard and Firefox. There, plain [ and ] are entered via Alt+5 and Alt+6, but in combination with ⌘, nothing happens.
    – Jens Bannmann
    Dec 30, 2013 at 9:09
  • Revisited this. Command+[ & Command+] seem to be History->Back & History->Forward in Chrome. Hmm...
    – Touko
    Mar 17, 2014 at 14:10
  • hmm command+[/] is working for me
    – chrismarx
    Apr 28, 2014 at 20:50
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    Unfortunately, even the "Custom Keyboard Shortcuts" Lab doesn't have options to change the keys for indent.
    – ale
    Oct 4, 2014 at 14:50

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Reset to default
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I am able to use the following shortcuts:

  • Indent: Command + }
  • Outdent: Command + { or Enter
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  • This worked for me!
    – RobertAKARobin
    May 10, 2019 at 15:51
  • For me (with Finnish keyboard) that doesn't work. On Finnish keyboard { and } are got with Shift+Alt+8 and Shift+Alt+8, so probably modifiers mess that up or something
    – Touko
    Sep 25, 2020 at 16:15
  • Does not work on a German keyboard.
    – Helge Klein
    Feb 5, 2021 at 18:44
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Original poster suggested following key combination to type a bullet (·):

Shift + option + 8

For some reason, that does not work for me (macOS Sierra & Finnish keyboard layout). I get a bullet by pressing following keys:

Shift + option + .

I hope this helps if anybody else has same problem.

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  • To clarify a bit, for me <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>⌘</kbd>+<kbd>8</kbd> does not type a bullet but starts/toggles a bullet list.
    – Touko
    Nov 13, 2018 at 14:38
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To indent further inside, you press Tab.

To indent outside, i.e. to decrease indent, you just press Enter with the bullet being empty.

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    In my gmail, if I press Tab while on a bullet point, the focus is moved out from the message text field to Send button. Enter on an empty bullet works for decreasing indent
    – Touko
    Aug 14, 2017 at 9:15
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Yes there are various shortcuts available for indenting the bullet list in gmail message editor with Mac.These shortcut keys are like :- Ctrl+shift+7 is the shortcut key for numbered list. Ctrl+shift+8 is the shortcut key for a bullet list. The above both the shortcut keys are useful for the Google Docs also.

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