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Excluding messages with a given label is ignored if other messges in the conversation lack the label
You can do searches that exclude certain labels. That is, searches like this will do what you expect:
(label:MyLabel1 AND NOT label:inbox AND NOT label:MyBadLabel1)
That search will show you only ...
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Disable Gmail's highlighting of the search query in the email's body
The option to disable the highlighting ("Turn off highlighting") is located in the "More" menu (indicated with three vertical dots: "⋮") between the search box and the ...
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Gmail Search Operator for general "today"
There's no "today" search operator, but you can filter to the last 24 hours with the newer_than operator.
in:inbox newer_than:1d
(Unfortunately "0d" doesn't work.)
That should work for what you ...
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Disable Gmail's highlighting of the search query in the email's body
With the most recent Gmail UI, the menu item has changed to an icon which you never would guess toggled highlighting until you actually hover over it to get the help text. It's in the top-right corner ...
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How to create a filter with bcc or cc
Yes you can.
You will need to add your email address on the Includes the words field
Includes the words cc:[email protected]
You can even include both bcc and cc in just one filter:
(bcc:example@...
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How do I limit search to a folder in Gmail?
By folder, you mean label right? If you navigate to a label, it should already populate the search bar with the format needed. So if I have a label called "Finances" the search should be
label:...
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Search 'in:inbox is:read' does not work?
I found the answer.
In order to do it - you need to search
(NOT is:unread) in:inbox
This solve the problem while if is one messages that is unread in thread, the thread not will be in the result.
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Google Drive files not showing in Gmail search results (Apps search feature disappeared)
See the official Gmail Blog
We’ll be implementing the instant results feature for Google Apps
customers in late-2015 or early 2016*. With this improved experience
on the horizon, we’ll be ...
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Gmail bulk Emails manipulation
Try the following script
/**
* Creates the first trigger to call batchArchiveEmail.
*/
function init(){
ScriptApp
.newTrigger('batchArchiveEmail')
.timeBased()
.after(60 * 1000)
....
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Gmail search filter "from: contacts" possible?
You can make a filter in this format:
from:({"Katherine Jones" <[email protected]>, "Stan Jones" <[email protected]>, etc…})
I dump all the addresses into Word and edit there to make a ...
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Find a Gmail attachment by size
Unfortunately, there's no search filter for attachment size (though that would make a good feature request).
The closest you'll likely be able to get is to use several search parameters to try to ...
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Search 'in:inbox is:read' does not work?
It works as designed. It is showing you all conversations that have one or more read messages. If you want to only see the messages that have been read then you will have to disable conversations.
...
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How to search in Gmail from a link of an email address in Google Sheet?
If the email address is in cell B2:
=HYPERLINK(CONCATENATE("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/from%3A", B2), "Read Emails")
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How to use complex filtering queries in Gmail?
Is this a real string to be pasted somewhere into Gmail (where?) or a pseudo-code to explain filter settings that need to be applied?
It's a real thing and you are supposed to use it (just a part of ...
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Sort Gmail *search results* oldest first
That option doesn't sort. When it is available it allows you to jump to the last page of search results.
I find that the option is valuable when the search is simple, you are getting all the messages ...
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How to show all messages with any label in Gmail?
Gmail has user created labels and system labels. inbox is one of the system labels.
To search for email with
user created labels use: has:userlabels
user created labels or inbox label use: has:...
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Gmail search by filetype is failing
According to support.google.com, the proper syntax is:
filename:zip
That worked for me, it returns all results since my Gmail account was created in 2007.
From support.google.com:
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Google Sheets to Gmail Search
Can it be done. Yes.
I've just been through this myself, and can offer some thoughts.
I created a link using a HYPERLINK formula. I made the link part of a template, as well as other links that were ...
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Apply Gmail filters to sublabels only
You need simply negate the criteria for the other search so your search
to:([email protected])
Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "Me.com/Me"
Becomes
to:([email protected]) -from:({indeedemail angel.com ...
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How do I limit search to a folder in Gmail?
All you have to do is either go in the label or click on the little arrow on the right hand side of the search box.
For more info you can read about: Search operators you can use with Gmail
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How can 2 people use the same Gmail account and filter incoming e-mails for each user considering Labels are applied per message?
I do not think there is a straight solution to your issue.
There is a simple workaround though, since:
Both the husband and wife use the same e-mail account via Gmail.
You also mention that:
...
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How can I take action on incoming Gmail emails (via a saved filter) that do not include a plus sign in the to line?
The filter you need to use in the Includes the words field is:
to:[email protected] -([email protected] OR [email protected])
Please try it out and let us know how it goes.
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How can I filter Gmail emails that do not include a plus sign in the to line?
I could not find a straightforward solution myself either because the plus (+) sign is reserved as a special character for "Results that match a word exactly". So I use the following ...
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Gmail search only recognizes whole word？
When in Inbox or All Mail, search picks up partial words as well (as you can see in the uploaded image).
But. Not when it comes to Bin, Spam or any label or category for that matter.
In general: ...
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How to search in Gmail from a link of an email address in Google Sheet?
@Phil Anderson's approach using HYPERLINK is a great solution, and I just want to extend it slightly.
The search should be for messages either to or from the client:
from:[email protected] OR to:...
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Gmail email search filter is not working correctly
Thanks for your answer, actually, the issue is that there was a missing text "category:" in front of "Promotions". Without it, it was looking for inbox mails with a text "promotions" and applying the ...
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Gmail email search filter is not working correctly
The only thing you need to change is removing the spaces after the search operators. There shouldn't be a space between the colon and the date. Your search query should look like this:
promotions ...
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Is it possible to search Gmail for messages sent after working hours?
The short answer is no. Gmail's search doesn't include any filters for time; only dates. There may be a browser extension out there that will filter Gmail messages by time, but I haven't seen it. I ...
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How do I search in Gmail such that email address is also included?
From the Gmail search bar you can add various flags to narrow your search, e.g.,
from:argus "car hire" searches for the string "car hire" in any email from an address containing "argus". So if you ...
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