Gmail

In MS Outlook, you might have stored email you want to keep in folders. In Gmail, you use labels to categorize your email. Labels are like folders, but with a twist: you can apply multiple labels to an email, then later find the email by looking in any of its labels.

You can also:

Open a label on the left of your Gmail window to see all email with that label (just like you used to open a folder).

Nest labels within labels, just like you did with folders.

Search for all email with a label.

See labels on email in your inbox to quickly identify different types of email.

Create a label:

1. In the top right, click the gear and select Settings.
2. Click the Labels tab.
3. Scroll to the Labels section and click Create new label.
4. Enter the label name and click Create.

You can even create nested labels, which are like subfolders.

Tag one or more messages with a label you’ve created:

1. Select your messages.
2. Click Labels.
3. Check the labels you want to add to your selected messages and click Apply.

Add a color to a label:

1. In your Labels list on the left, hover over the label and click the Down arrow.
2. Hover over Label color and choose a color. Or, click Add custom color.
3. The change is instantly applied to all messages with that label.
4. (Optional) To remove a label color, hover over Label color and click Remove color.