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Gmail inbox tags

I've got a bunch of messages in my Inbox that I want to 'move' to a different tag. So I search to get a list of them and then select them all. I am able to add the tag I want but there does not appear to be a way to remove the Inbox tag from them all en masse. So then I have to open each message and remove it. There has to be a better way.

Any suggestions?

Oops. Didn't mean to set this to 500 points. That's probably too much for such a questions?

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lee555J5

Yes, way too much "for such a questions". :)

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techjws

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I'm just figuring out this tagging thing. I'm used to hierarchical folders. I was resistant at first but I can see the advantages. I don't want them in the Inbox anymore though. Archiving and tagging seems to be the best solution. With most everything you don't explicitly delete going into a big 8Gb bucket it seems like it would be difficult to purge the garbage later.

I guess as far as points go, it's your lucky day ;-)

lee555J5

I was resistant too for the same reason, but the benefits are good. Glad we could help.

Thanks for the points, and gj on the distribution with GiantSlayer's parallel post. :)

If you do a lot with gmail, take a look at all the kb shortcuts -- huge time savings.

Lee