Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

Why Gmail Displays the Wrong Name on Sent Emails (And How to Fix It) Quite often, we see a different name while hovering over our profile in our Gmail inbox, or our recipients may see an unexpected sender name on outgoing messages that isn't easily traceable. This guide walks through each scenario step-by-step to show how it affects outgoing messages in a recipient's inbox and where to fix it. Here are the links to the sections The Name on the Google Account The Name in Gmail's "Send Mail As" Settings Your Email Address Saved in Your Own Contacts Third-Party Email Clients & Mobile Apps 1. The Name on the Google Account Your primary Google Account name can be updated from either of the following official account pages: myaccount.google.com/name myaccount.google.com/profile/name Visiting the first link opens the standard name edit...

I wrote my first blog on Canned Responses here - Exploring the Advanced Tab in Gmail Settings: About Canned Responses , noting "Believe it or not, there is no article on Canned Responses in the Gmail Help Centre. Probably because it has always been a lab feature in the past and now included under the Advanced tab under Gmail settings in the new Gmail. So, today we take a look at this very popular feature in Gmail and the different ways we can use it.". That has remained the case, so with a change of UI, there is a need to rewrite the tutorial on how we can perform the following functions for a Canned Response or as they are now known, Templates . Create a Template Insert a Template Edit or Overwrite a Template Delete a Template Thankfully, the prerequisites haven't changed. To start using Templates in Gmail, it needs to be enabled from the Advanced tab under Gmail settings. As always, be sure to click on the Save Changes button on the bottom of the page. ...

Wendy Durham (CWD in her A Gmail Miscellany blog and wdurham in the Gmail Help Forum ) was a Product Expert and a prolific contributor when it came to explaining the intricacies of Gmail and Google accounts. Due to changes to Gmail and Google Accounts over the recent years, some of her well-known blog articles are no longer applicable. The three most used articles have been updated here to be consistent with the current version of Gmail and in some cases, Google Account. This will keep them useful going forward as a tribute to her dedication to user education. The current version of the article is updated based on the changes introduced in the Gmail UI as of January 2022, following the announcement here .  All your Gmail basics in one place! A primer for new users of Gmail, which explains how to find your way around Google's innovative email service and to perform the basic email tasks of reading messages, sending messages and organizing your mail using Gmail's web interfac...