Indent text in an email

Press Tab while writing a message and the text moves in, the way it does in a document. Shift+Tab takes it back out again. This works in the compose window, in a reply inside a thread, and on your phone.

Tab used to jump to the next button instead. It now stays in your message, because that is where you are writing.

Inside a bulleted or numbered list

Tab makes the current item a sub-item of the one above, and Shift+Tab promotes it back. That is how you build a nested list: type the first item, press Return, then Tab.

Getting out of the message with the keyboard

Press Shift+Tab when there is no indent left to remove and focus leaves the message, so you can carry on to the buttons below it. Anything you have already indented comes out first, one press at a time.

Closing the compose window with Escape

Press Escape and the compose window closes, as long as you have not written anything in the message yet. Once there is writing in it, Escape leaves it alone, so a stray press can never take a half finished message off your screen. Close it with the Discard button or send it when you are ready.

On a reply, the quoted message TALISK_HQ puts there for you does not count as writing, so Escape still closes a reply you have not started.

What the person receiving it sees

An indent is part of the message, so it arrives looking the way you left it in their mail app too. It is spacing rather than formatting, so it survives wherever they read it.