Gmail Filters: Know How To Use Gmail Filters

Has there been a moment when you wasted a lot of time while scrolling through the junk of the email messages just to find one single important email message? It is certainly very much embarrassing at times. If you are not in a hurry, you may not instantly realize the issue. However, if you wish quickly find an urgent email message; you may surely not get disappointed. But there is nothing to worry. You can customize your email account to a great extent. Gmail offers great customizing features and you can use these features to escalate the luxury of using Gmail. Gmail offers the Filter feature and you can use this feature to organize the Gmail account in a convenient manner and enrich the user experience.

Simple steps to filter the Gmail messages

If you have never used the Gmail filtering features, you can learn to use these features using the steps given below:

• Launch Gmail and login to your account by entering the username and password
• Click the ‘Gear’ icon on the top right and scroll down to find ‘Settings’
• Click ‘Settings’ and then find ‘Filters’ and click on it
• Find and click the option ‘Create a new filter’
• Choose and specify the criteria by ticking in the box given along with the alternatives provided
• Once you specify the criteria, click ‘Test search’. This will provide you the result and you can see whether filter is functioning properly.
• If you are satisfied with the created filter, click ‘Create filter with this search’
• As per your choice and requirement, click Delete, or Mark as read etc.
• Finally click ‘Create filter’

You can thus create filters as per your choice and requirements. You can choose and specify the criteria and filter all the emails. From now on, you will not have to scroll through each and every email message in the inbox. You know now which message is where and you can directly find that message without unnecessarily wasting any time in searching this.