How to create an email group in Gmail – a guide

With a Gmail email group, you can send the same email to multiple recipients at once and don’t have to type in all the email addresses individually. How exactly this works, you will learn in this article with step-by-step instructions.

1. Open the mail.google.com page in your browser and sign in.
2. Click the cube (“Google Apps”) in the top right corner and select “Contacts”.
3. Select the contacts you want to add to the Gmail email list, and then click the “Manage labels” icon (above the contact list), and then click “Create label”.
4. Enter a name for the group and save your entry. The group will be displayed on the left side under “Labels”.
5. If you now want to send a new message to this Gmail list, enter the name of the group in the “Recipient” field.

The short guide above is a great overview for how to create a group email in Gmail, but you might need more information. The following steps will show you what to do in detail.

If you want to add contacts to a created Gmail group, proceed like this:

1. Open Google Contacts.
2. Select one or more contacts by clicking the box next to the contact name.
3. Click on “Manage labels” and then on the group label of your choice. Confirm with “Apply”.

If you want to delete a contact from a group, proceed as follows:

1. Open Google Contacts.
2. Click the desired group name in the left side menu.
3. Select the contacts you want to remove by clicking the boxes next to each contact name.
4. Click the three-dot icon (“More actions”) at the top right, and then click “Remove from label”.

You can delete or rename a Gmail email group that you have created at any time. To do this, proceed as follows:

1. Open Google Contacts.
2. Navigate to the label you want to edit in the left side menu
3. Select the Rename label or Delete label button

Creating your own Gmail email group is not the only handy feature offered by Google’s popular mail client. Learn about other handy features and tips that every Gmail user should know in the guides listed:

• Out of Office in Gmail: If you are unavailable for a certain period of time, you can set up an out-of-office message that will be automatically sent to your contacts.
• Gmail forwarding: Set up automatic forwarding of your emails with Gmail.
• Gmail read receipts: Receipt confirmation gives you the assurance that important emails and attachments have been read or seen by the recipient.
• Gmail archive: The archive function is a convenient solution for tidying up your inbox.
• Cancel sending an email in Gmail: Carelessly sent mails can be recalled with this clever function.
• Change password in Gmail: Set up a new password for yourself if you want to change your old password or have forgotten it.
• Delete Gmail account: We will guide you through the process of deleting your Gmail account.