Category Archives for "Gmail"

In Gmail, How to Group Emails by Sender

Oftentimes, we see individuals migrating from Outlook. These poeple tend to want to create folders for each type of mesage, so that they can quickly find what they’re looking for. For example, they’ll create a folder called “boss@mycompany.com” that will receive all messages that they receive from their boss. That way, when they require a […]

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How to Create a Gmail Group Email Account

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Groupings within email accounts have existed for a very long time. Even in newer technologies like Facebook, group chats still exist. Email groups are still popular to this day. Google offers a Google Groups platform where you can create groups, as well as share messages and files. A lot of people have voiced concern over […]

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How to Insert a Table in Gmail

The Gmail “compose” window unfortunately doesn’t have any features to insert a table. However, it’s still quite easy to insert a table in Gmail (even with some good formatting).   Start by composing your message in Gmail: Now, open Google sheets in another tab (Go to docs.google.com and then select sheets from the menu): Next, […]

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In Gmail, how to auto-reply to certain emails

The vacation responder feature of Gmail is useful for sending automated replies to all emails that you receive between certain dates. However, customisation is quite limited in this feature. If you want to send specific replies based on different conditions (the from address of the email, the email subject line etc), you can use the […]

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Setting Up Gmail’s Canned Response Auto-Replies

Gmail has a vacation responder feature that is quite useful when you are away from your email for some days. However, this feature tends to be quite limiting as far as the options it offers. You can’t setup different auto-response templates (for example based on the from address of the email), so the responses are […]

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How to Setup Gmail Vacation Responses

Setting up a simple vacation response in Gmail is quite easy. The steps below shows you how to setup the “on vacation” message. First, open Gmail. Then, click on the settings icon on the top right side (with the gear icon) and choose settings: In the settings page (under the “general” tab), scroll down to […]

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Configuring Gmail on Outlook – A Step-by-Step Guide

Making Things Easier From Your Desktop Turns out it’s actually pretty easy to configure Outlook to fetch messages from your Gmail accounts. There are two steps to this. First, you’re going to have to enable IMAP in your Gmail settings. Enable IMAP In Your Gmail Account Open Gmail and go to Settings (click on the […]

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How to Create a Gmail Distribution List from Excel

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Creating an email group from an Excel sheet saves a lot of time. Many apps/software allow exporting lists to Excel. Below, we’ve outlined thee steps to create an email group from contacts in an Excel sheet. Column Structure Create or reformat your Excel sheet to have two columns, one for name and the other for […]

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