I have a number of older emails in Gmail which are unread which I'd like to make read but I don't want to mark recent unread emails as read. Can I mark all emails from a specific date to be marked read without manually finding each one?
The same way you'd do any bulk action on email messages: Search first.
Assuming you want to find all of the messages from before April 1 and mark them read:
- search Gmail for
before:2019-04-01 - click the checkbox at the top of the list to select all of the visible messages
- if you have more than 1 page of results, you'll get a message similar to "All 50 conversations on this page are selected. Select all conversations that match this search" where "Select all conversations..." is a link. Click that link to choose all matching messages
- Choose your action. "Mark as read" should be one of the buttons at the top, among others. There are other actions in the "More" menu
There are a lot of search operators you can use with Gmail.
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Many thanks. I added "before:2019-10-01 label:unread" and all the unread messages came up. I then clicked the open envelope icon to change them to read. – LegalEagle2 Nov 25 '19 at 17:18
