Gmail Canned Responses

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.