When we spend most of the day in front of our computer, surely more than once we have had the web version of WhatsApp open all that time, so as not to have to be looking at the mobile all the time when they send us a message, but change the window all the time it is also annoying, so there are some keyboard shortcuts for WhatsApp Web that will solve many problems.
Keyboard shortcuts help us to perform quick actions and avoid more movements with the mouse, that is, we can do several actions by pressing two or more keys on our keyboard. Next, we will show you the 10 keyboard shortcuts for WhatsApp Web .
The keyboard shortcuts that WhatsApp Web has will be very useful to us on many occasions, but everything good always has a negative point, they are something to remember because some keyboard shortcuts require the pressing of more than three keys at the same time.
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Ctrl + Alt + N
When we open WhatsApp Web for the first time, it is synchronized with all the chats that we already had open on our mobile, but if we want to create a new chat to start a conversation we will have to press the aforementioned keys.
In this way we will create a new chat which will ask us to find the contact with whom we want to start talking, typing their name in the search field.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N
On the other hand, if what we want is to create a new group we will have to press these keys, when pressing them the basic rules of the group will appear, that is, we will have to choose the group members and the name.
It is a very useful function if we want to start adding many users, remember that you will not be able to more than 250 , but you can start there to create a large group and faster from WhatsApp Web.
Ctrl + Alt +,
With this shortcut we will directly access the WhatsApp Web configuration menu so that we can make pertinent changes such as, for example, change our profile photo, see the current topic among other options.
A useful shortcut if what we want is to see the menu quickly without scrolling with the mouse and we agree to see all the options that WhatsApp Web has.
Ctrl + Alt + P
With the previous shortcut we access the configuration menu, but with this new shortcut we can directly access our profile and information in such a way that it will allow us to change our name or profile photo much faster.
Ctrl + Alt + /
With this shortcut, what we will achieve is to open the WhatsApp Web search box , that is, we can press these keys and we can automatically type anything we want to search for in the web application.
Very useful if we want to find the name of one of our contacts, or for example a group if we have several, it is a widely used shortcut.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + F
Before we told you the keyboard shortcut to search all WhatsApp Web, but now with this we can only activate the search box in the chat that we have open.
Very useful for when we need to search for something in the current conversation, and thus not have to continually browse to find that old conversation piece that you want.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + P
We remind you that in WhatsApp we can set chats , that is, we can leave them anchored in the upper part of our chat window so that they are always in the first position.
Well, in WhatsApp Web we can do it with this keyboard shortcut, we will only have to press it when we have the chat we want to set open and it will automatically appear with the cone of a pin.
Ctrl + Alt + Backspace or delete key
If what we want is to delete the current chat, we will only have to press these keys, when doing so, a confirmation message will appear so that we can decide whether or not we want to delete the chat.
Ctrl + Alt + E
With this shortcut we will archive the chat that we currently have open , in such a way that it will go to the list of archived chats and will disappear from the main window of active chats.
Remember that an archived chat is not deleted but rather disappears from the main chat list and returns to it when a message is sent in that chat.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + M
With this shortcut we can silence the chat , when we press it a new window will appear in which we will have to choose the period of time that we want to silence it, when we silence a chat, notifications do not appear on our mobile.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + U
Another way we have to remember to read the messages or WhatsApp is to mark them as “unread” in such a way that a green dot will appear in the chat to remind us that we have yet to read that chat.
It is very useful for when they send us a message and we cannot read it at the moment, we will only have to mark it as unread and thus we will know that we will have to do it later.
These are all the keyboard shortcuts that you can do from WhatsApp Web , as you can see they are not few and they are a way to perform several actions avoiding many mouse clicks and without navigating through several consecutive menus.
