Decrease Font Size shrinks the selected text in your draft a step at a time. It is useful for trimming an oversized heading or fitting a disclaimer at the foot of a message without opening the font menu for each change.
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Decrease font size Gmail Shortcut Tutorial
If you want to decrease the font size while composing an email in Gmail, you can easily do so using keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail and then use the shortcut to decrease the font size:
1. To enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, first log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen and select “See all settings” from the dropdown menu.
3. In the Settings menu, click on the “General” tab.
4. Scroll down until you see the “Keyboard shortcuts” section.
5. Click on the radio button next to “Keyboard shortcuts on” to enable keyboard shortcuts.
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Save Changes” to apply the settings.
Now that you have enabled keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, you can use the following shortcut to decrease the font size while composing an email:
1. While composing an email, highlight the text that you want to decrease the font size of.
2. Press and hold the “Ctrl” key on your keyboard.
3. Without releasing the “Ctrl” key, press the “Shift” key and the “,” key at the same time.
The font size of the selected text should decrease. You can repeat this shortcut to further decrease the font size if needed.
If you would rather not flip the setting yourself, the CMDK extension enables shortcuts like Decrease Font Size for you and brings more than 80 others to Gmail.
Go beyond a single shortcut
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