Comments on: How To Create a Filter in Gmail

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:57:48 +0000

Does this have to be done separately for each email that you want to deal with?
Thank you

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:58:49 +0000

In reply to Lori.

Hi Lori,
This Google Help article should get you back to the default and being able to see all your tabs: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3094499?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
🙂

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:24:19 +0000

Dear Neena, I followed the instructions in this article carefully and set up filters for certain senders in my inbox. Now my Primary, Promotions and Social tabs have disappeared. I can’t find a way to reset gmail to default settings. I am miserable. How do I reset gmail to default settings?

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:36:31 +0000

In reply to Dewald Zaaiman. Hi Dewald, Best of luck with your job search. I am so happy that this article helped you!

By: Dewald Zaaiman

Dewald Zaaiman — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:48:32 +0000

Hi Neena,

I am job hunting since March this year as I have lost my job for believe it or not: ‘doing the right thing’

However, thank you very much as this was and is currently the next best thing to sliced bread in my everyday life and days to come.

My inbox of nearly 18300 mails have ‘automaically’ vanished, thanks to you.

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:53:56 +0000

In reply to Vihra. You are welcome, Vihra!

By: Vihra

Vihra — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:18:23 +0000

Thank you so much Neena! It was a very helpful! Now my email will be clean and clear!

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:57:42 +0000

In reply to Monika. Thank you! I'm so glad it helped you. :-)

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:40:24 +0000

Thank you, Neena for your easy to understand Gmail Filter guidelines. Very nicely explained. Thank you.

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:13:07 +0000

In reply to Alan Dahlstrom.

Hi Alan,
Glad to have helped. 🙂

As to grouping emails in your gmail inbox – you can group items by label.

So, you can set up a filter to automatically label certain messages and then group these labels in your inbox.
Go to Settings and then select Inbox across the top tabs. In Inbox type select Priority Inbox. In Inbox Sections (which shows up when you select Priority Inbox), pick one of the numbers and click on the dropdown arrow next to options or add section. In the dropdown that appears choose “more options”. Then you can choose “Show all from label”.

I am not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but I think it is the closest option.

By: Alan Dahlstrom

Alan Dahlstrom — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:08:57 +0000

Thank you so much, you made this easy. I know how to do this in Outlook at work, but did not know it was an option for Gmail. Do you know if there is a way to group gmails in the Inbox by Subject or From

By: Neena Nandagopal

Neena Nandagopal — Tue, 09 May 2017 19:02:32 +0000

In reply to marsha.

Hi Marsha,
If I understand correctly, you should be able to set up a filter using the method that I outlined to assign a label to email that is already in your inbox.

Make sure you click the checkbox next to “Skip the inbox (Archive It)” and also the check the box next to “Apply filter to x number of matching messages” – see the headline in my article called – An Amazingly useful Gmail tip.

This should “Move” everything that you received – from the sender that you designate, out of your Inbox and also give the emails the label that you designate.

Once you apply the filter to the matching messages in your inbox, be sure to go back and delete the filter right away, otherwise, any future email that you receive from that particular sender will skip your inbox (meaning that you might not see the email come in) and will automatically get labeled – unless this is what you want to have happen.

Hope this helps. 🙂