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Do you nd yourself addressing the same group of recipients

over and over? It can be quite monotonous to enter all their email

addresses every time. There is an easier way to achieve this.

If you haven’t gotten around to checking out the Contacts functionality in Gmail, have a look by

clicking on the lefthand “Contacts” link in Gmail. You will now see a list of your contacts with whom

you exchange mail frequently, as well as a complete list of contacts, and your contact groups. For

every contact, you can provide address or telephone details, along with other private notes on the

contact. You can also add a small photo for every contact, or add a contact group.

Creating your own contact group has one major advantage: you will then be able to just type the

group name in the Gmail To: eld, and see it expand to the full list of recipients. Not only will this

save you time typing, it also decreases the chance that you’ll accidentally address the wrong person

(sending potentially private information) because two of your contacts share the same rst name.

To create a new group, switch to the Contacts dialog. Click the button with a plus sign and two

people at the top of this box to add a group (see Figure 5-2). Name the group—lik ...