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Edit, Rename, Delete Gmail Labels (Gmail Tips and Tricks)

How to Create, Edit, Rename or delete Labels in Gmail?

Gmail offers this wonderful feature called labels to organize the emails. I have already posted about changing label colors. Follow these steps to Edit the labels.

Log in to Gmail
Top right corner of the page you will see the settings button, Click “Settings”
You will get a page with all the settings information
Click the “Label” Tab
You will see all the available labels
If you want to rename any Labels, on the right side you will see a link called “Rename”
Click the “Rename” link, you will see a pop up asking for the new name
Enter the new name and change the label name
If you want to delete any labels that you do not want, Click “Remove” link at the right side of the each Label
It will ask for a confirmation to delete (You cannot get the labels back)
If you click OK the label will be deleted
Remember, if you delete a label, the emails assigned with the labels will not be deleted. But if you delete the label by mistake you cannot assign the label back to the same emails
If you want to create a new label
Enter the new label name into the “Create a new Label” Box and click “Create”

Edit Label Demo

You can create many labels

You can color the labels as you want

If you have any question or suggestion, Please post a comment.

dave

Gmail Labels Tips and Tricks – Change Label Colors

How to Change the Color of each label?

Easily change the color of the labels in Gmail to differentiate easily between 2 labels.

Left side of the page you will see the list of all the labels

Right side of the label you will see a small box, just click the small box to display the colors that you want to choose

Change label colors

As seen above change the colors of your choice

Gmail Label Colors

This feature is not available in most of the email providers

Thanks to Google for this wonderful feature

If you have any question or suggestion, please post a comment

Dave