Find
yourself sending the same email repeatedly? For example, twice a year, I send
out information to parents about signing up for parent/teacher conferences, and
inevitably a few parents need the information emailed to them again. With this
feature(lab) enabled in Gmail, I am able to enter the desired subject and body
text into a blank email, save it as a canned response, and later use it to
prepopulate a future correspondence.
Note: Canned responses will not save any
attachments. I suggest saving the files to Google Drive with sharing set to
anyone with the link and inserting this link in the canned response email.
Directions to enable this ability:
Open Gmail.
In the upper right, click the cog wheel and choose Settings.
At the top, click the tab for Labs.
Across from “Canned Responses,” click
the bubble to Enable.
Scroll to the bottom, and click on Save Changes.
