Saving Time in Gmail Part II: Taking Canned Responses up a NOTCH!

Here's yet another way to save time in Gmail, particularly if you're getting the same types of e-mails over and over.

I showed you how to do canned responses.  Did you know that, using filters, you can make sure those canned responses go out automatically to people who fit a certain criteria?   You will not even have to click a button.

This solution is a bit more complex than making a canned response, so I'm going to let the Google Gooru handle it.  Here's a great video giving step by step directions on how to make this happen:



I made one that you can check out.  Simply e-mail me at CWildmanZoer (at) gmail (dot) com. Put Canned Response in the subject line.

As long as you follow those directions, you'll get an e-mail back from me with some information.  It was quick to put together, and will be responding to e-mail for me 24 hours a day as long as it meets the criteria!  Try it- and if you have questions I have not answered, feel free to ask them in your e-mail.  I'll get back to you. :)

I hope you found this helpful, and I look forward to hearing about how you use it.

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Saving Time in Gmail: Canned Responses

If you use Gmail and find yourself frequently answering the same question, consider using canned responses. Canned responses are a great way to save time answering the questions you get asked over and over and over and over.  Here's how:

Be sure that you have canned responses turned on in Gmail.

Go to the gear and click on settings:









Click on Labs and look for Canned Responses.





Be sure to Enable the Canned Responses.  Be sure to scroll to the bottom and save your changes!

Once you have your changes saved, you can make your canned response.  Start by opening a new message and then writing your response.  Once you are done, click the triangle at the lower right hand corner and select canned responses.







Select New Canned response and name your response.  Be sure to think through the name- you want it to make sense to future you!

You're done!  Your response is now ready to use.

To use the response, open up an e-mail.  It can be a brand new one or a response to an e-mail that you've been sent.  Go to the same triangle to get to your canned responses, look under insert, and select the one you've already named.  Click on it. It will insert in the message.

You now know how to add canned message. I hope that this helps save you time in the future!

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