Methods to include or exclude certain emails or messages from landing in your inbox or search results.

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Google Spreadsheets Filtering data in another page and changing data in the original

I have a lot of data that I need to filter. I did it in another page and that's good... but now I need to put some values in that page... and transfer that data to the original. This is the formula ...
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How to Filter Emails Forwarded to Gmail Alias?

I have a Google Apps email (me@business.com) set to auto-forward all mail to my personal Gmail (me@gmail.com). I have added the me@business.com address to my personal Gmail so I can send mail as ...
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Gmail Mute Filter

Is it possible to use Gmail filters to Mute a conversation? I've tried using a filter to Skip the Inbox, but when someone else replies to the original email it ends up in the Inbox again.
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Gmail filter to disable POP for specific messages

I have a filter in place for certain messages I don't want to be made available via POP. I don't want to delete them but I don't want them downloaded via POP either. The current filter is "skip the ...
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Filter out Google Calendar invites from people not in my contact list

How do I set up a filter in Gmail account so that invitations from people not in my contact list are automatically deleted (and the event removed from my calendar)?
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When Amazon gives me an item's price as a range like “5-10” how do I get the lower price?

Amazon will often list an item's price as a range. As an example, I just searched for "tshirt" and the first item was a Russell Athletic shirt (ASIN is B0007IBYO6), with a price range of $4.99 - ...
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How Do I Edit The Keywords on an Amazon.com Search Without Affecting the Other Search Filters?

On Amazon.com, if you start a search by putting in keywords in the search bar and then proceed to add some filters using the left sidebar (e.g. prime only, 4 stars or more), there is no obvious way to ...
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Routing my mail server through Google Spam filters

I've been told in the past that Google had a free spam filter service. The service would allow me to point my MX records to Google, then they would forward all cleaned mail to my server. Is this ...
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Programatically change subject line and forward mail - Google Apps

Gmail groups email with the same subject line into a conversation view (threaded). I've never had an issue with this functionality until I began using an online fax service (myfax). I can't label / ...
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copy google document table of contents links into google spreadsheet cells

I have a large google document where each table of contents item links to the header of a food recipe further down in the document. How do I copy each TOC link+title into cells in a google ...
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How can I distinguish if I have to filter emails via sender or mailinglist (provider)?

I have a similar problem to the person with this question. The e-mails I receive aren't totally unwanted though, but legitimate newsletters. They clutter my inbox though. And as the fella above I ...
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Forward only important mail in gmail

Is there a way to forward (or to get in any other way) the important mail as they arrive (or shortly after that) from the priority inbox to another mail account without forwarding the unimportant ...
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How to find Yahoo email that does NOT contain `facebook` in subject or in message body?

I want to find the messages that do NOT contain the term facebook in my Yahoo inbox. How can I do that?
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In what order are filters processed in Gmail?

If I have multiple filters that match the same email do they all get processed? If so, in what order are they processed? What if the first filter matched modifies the email to make it match (or no ...
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How can I filter my Gmail messages that aren't labeled?

I'd like to sort all of my Gmail messages that don't have label, so I can process them (I miss some every now and then). I can sort by every label by clicking on it at the left, but how do you sort ...
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Can I have Google search results always filtered?

Is there a way to have Google search results always filtered? I am constantly clicking on "only show results from the past year" and I would like to make this default.
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How do I look at just the reviews of the format I'm buying on Amazon

I just bought a Kindle, but when I look at reviews of a Kindle book I see reviews of the paperback and hardbacks. How do I filter the reviews so I just see the specific Kindle copy reviews? This ...
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How to specify “OR” conditions for gmail filter

How can I filter messages in GMail using boolean OR conditions. For example, I can specify addresses in the To: or From: fields, but this only matches emails that meet both criteria. How can I match ...
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My Gmail filter is also sending some emails to the wrong label

In the past few weeks, Gmail has started sending all my LinkedIn groups emails both to my "LinkedIn" folder as well as to my "Mailing Lists" folder. I don't want them in my "Mailing Lists" folder and ...
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gmail: filter to move email to the “sent folder”

Is it possible to create a gmail filter to redirect incoming email (those sent by me to me) to the sent folder? I use a VBA script to send email from Excel through smtp.googlemail.com. Unfortunately, ...
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How to filter messages in Hotmail?

I am forwarding my Hotmail account's email to my Gmail account, and it's working fine. Does anyone know to add filters like Gmail does? For example: like when it forward the email to any other ...
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Make Gmail send automatic canned responses for email it gets via POP

I have email from my personal domain POP'ed by my Gmail account. It works beautifully, except that it can't seem to do auto-replies. That means that I can't have an away message when I'm on vacation. ...
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Can Gmail forward mail to only one of two places?

I'd like to forward incoming Gmail to exactly one of two places, depending on the sender, something like this: If the sender is a.com or z.com, forward only to myid@firstforward.com and delete. If ...
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Google Spreadsheets Filter() - referencing source array in criteria

The filter() function looks through a source array, and filters it according to condition =FILTER(A:A,ISNUMBER(A:A)) My source array is a rather long formula, so i end up repeating the same formula ...
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How to clean up thousand of facebook notification email in yahoo mail box?

Currently my yahoo mail box is full of facebook notification messages. I try to create filter to move them to a separate folder but it is not applicable for current messages already in the inbox (see ...
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Hide particular feeds from Google Reader main article stream

I'm using Google Reader and I'm looking for a way to hide some feeds from my stream of all unread articles. Basically if you subscribe to a feed all its new articles appear in the list. I don't want ...
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Is there a way to search/filter gmail emails by the absolute domain without subdomains (e.g. google.com, but not plus.google.com)

Is there a way to search/filter gmail emails by the absolute domain without subdomains? If just do a search/filter on from:@google.com it includes all subdomains like plus.google.com, ...
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How can I reorder Gmail filters?

I have more than 20 filters, how can I easily reorder them?
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Filter messages with (no subject) in Gmail

Is there any workaround or way to filter or search for messages that have no subject line? I can see there is no way to filter messages when some field is "missing".
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How can I selectively filter email messages and redirect them from Outlook.com?

How does one selectively filter an email message and redirect it from Outlook.com?
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Is there a way to filter RSS feeds in Google Reader?

I have a number of busy RSS feeds for which I only find a subset of the messages to be of interest to me. Is there a way to configure Google reader to only display certain RSS items that match ...
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How can I auto-delete some spam from Gmail?

I really like GMail's spam filters. However, they occasionally catch not-spam so I like to quickly scan the contents of spam folder every so often, marking "not spam" to the few messages that aren't ...
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Gmail filters based on label and starred

Is it possible to create filters based on Labels and starred/un-starred status in Gmail or any other app (Android or GNU/Linux)? My specific problem is this: I want to delete mails labelled lists ...
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Is it possible to filter Trello records that do not have labels?

I'd like to filter so that I only see cards that are not labelled. I can see how to filter for any combination of labels except "only show me those that have no label". I think this would be very ...
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Gmail filter not from address conversation

I created a filter that matches all the automated messages sent from a service, marks them as read, archives them (skips the inbox), and adds an "Automated" label. This works great most of the time, ...
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Block videos from certain users on YouTube

YouTube itself does not provide such functionality to block a user from being able to see a certain video. Is there another way to accomplish this?
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Using Cards button to open new Window [closed]

I use a cards button to filter by date. It would be great that when you click a card, this will be opened in a new window. Otherwise you need to go again to open the cards overview and this means ...
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Creating a list of contacts from generated emails [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Get e-mail addresses from Gmail messages received I teach a class on using Mathematica, and in the first "lab", the students enter their email address, and these are ...
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How to make Gmail receive email only from one account? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to implement a white-list-based system in Gmail? I want to make my Gmail account filter out all incoming email, save for those from a particular address, so that ...
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Filter emails on command with Yahoo! Mail?

I know you can set filters for certain emails by right-clicking on them, clicking "filter emails like this", and filling out the form. But, that does nothing to existing emails. Is there a way for me ...
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Hide images that AREN'T filtered by SafeSearch

When using Google Image Search, is it possible to exclusively show the images that are filtered by SafeSearch? Such a feature would be useful for the identification of false positives (so that users ...
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Remove offensive images from the search results that I see [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can I stop offensive images from appearing on Google Image Search? I have reported various offensive images from one specific website, but after a few weeks, most of the ...
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Blocking stupid videos on YouTube

There are a lot of really stupid/trolly/fake videos on YouTube. I'd like to block them forever when I see them, so I don't accidentally click on them in the future, and maybe block the uploader, too, ...
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Filter new mail based on action performed on previous ones of the same conversation

I keep receiving emails sent to mailing lists which I subscribe, some of them are interested to me while other are not. So, I want to set up the filter which mark an email as unimportant when I mark ...
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Filtering archived messages in Gmail

I've done a lot of searching and experimenting with this and can't make it work. Basically I, like most, get a lot of email that isn't spam but isn't interesting. I read the first line preview and ...
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filter out certain posts in Google+

How can I filter out certain posts from showing up in my Google+ feed? For example, if I don't want to see more and more posts related to "disney AND lucasfilm", is there any way that I can add such ...
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Need count of items in one column with specific month/date in another column in Google Docs

I have been trying to use COUNTA with FILTER, but not getting correct results. The column I am counting from has text values input from a drop-down menu, which caused problems just counting until I ...
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How can I filter someone else's list of contacts in LinkedIn by location?

When I view someone else's list of contacts in LinkedIn, if I want to filter these by location or other variable...is this possible?
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How to get email addresses of selected emails from gmail inbox [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I grab all email addresses associated with a “label” in Gmail? I have thousands of emails in my gmail inbox. I want to get the email address of each selected ...
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Google Mail: advanced filtering of usernames in Search

The school I attend uses Google Apps for mail; using a set system for all student email addresses. The system is similar to this example: 11A[surname and initial]@domain.org Is there a way to use ...

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