> I may be missing it but is there an obvious (or easy) way to merge > email threads?
There is no easy way ... Google doesn't give that to us as a control, either to break threads apart, or to merge them together. (The only thing we can do, is delete individual messages in a thread, if you are careful how you do it.)
Messages are put into threads by virtue of their subject, apparently; though there seem to be occasional exceptions to that as a simple rule. So as 'Chris17' says, the only thing you can do is forward messages to yourself with the subject of the thread under which you want them to appear. It is cumbersome but that's about all we can do.
Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
(subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
missing in my effort to merge? Thanks, JB
On Sep 30, 1:14 pm, Andrew Ingraham <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I may be missing it but is there an obvious (or easy) way to merge
> > email threads?
> There is no easy way ... Google doesn't give that to us as a control, either
> to break threads apart, or to merge them together. (The only thing we can
> do, is delete individual messages in a thread, if you are careful how you do
> it.)
> Messages are put into threads by virtue of their subject, apparently; though
> there seem to be occasional exceptions to that as a simple rule. So as
> 'Chris17' says, the only thing you can do is forward messages to yourself
> with the subject of the thread under which you want them to appear. It is
> cumbersome but that's about all we can do.
> Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out > (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the > suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar > subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm > missing in my effort to merge?
Interesting. I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads! (Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.) So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject, to decide how to group messages into threads.
Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.
There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads. There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail improvements. This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.
> > Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
> > (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
> > suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
> > subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
> > missing in my effort to merge?
> Interesting. I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get
> the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads!
> (Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.)
> So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject,
> to decide how to group messages into threads.
> Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.
> There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads.
> There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail
> improvements. This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't
> recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.
Thanks. I posted a suggestion for Conversation View changes - I think
it would greatly enhance project management workflow. Thanks for
everyone's help. Greatly appreciated. @jbinfrisco
On Oct 1, 10:15 am, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> It's called "Conversation View changes" on the suggestion page.
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:39, Andrew Ingraham <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
> > > (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
> > > suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
> > > subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
> > > missing in my effort to merge?
> > Interesting. I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get
> > the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads!
> > (Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.)
> > So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject,
> > to decide how to group messages into threads.
> > Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.
> > There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads.
> > There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail
> > improvements. This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't
> > recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.
> Thanks. I posted a suggestion for Conversation View changes - I think
> it would greatly enhance project management workflow. Thanks for
> everyone's help. Greatly appreciated. @jbinfrisco
> On Oct 1, 10:15 am, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> > It's called "Conversation View changes" on the suggestion page.
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:39, Andrew Ingraham <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > > Thanks Chris & Andrew. So I tried both fwd with (fwd:subject) & w/out
> > > > (subject) and neither seem to create merged singular thread. Does the
> > > > suggested work-around still produce two threads but produce similar
> > > > subject lines? Is that the workaround or is there something I'm
> > > > missing in my effort to merge?
> > > Interesting. I just tried it myself, even using cut-and-paste to get
> > > the subject exactly right, three times and got three new threads!
> > > (Also tried it with a "Re:" prefix to see if it made any difference.)
> > > So apparently, Google is using more information than just the subject,
> > > to decide how to group messages into threads.
> > > Given that, I can't think of a way to accomplish what you want.
> > > There have been suggestions to Google to allow control over threads.
> > > There's a webpage somewhere where you can 'vote' on suggested Gmail
> > > improvements. This suggestion was one of the choices, but I don't
> > > recall whether I saw it listed there the last time I checked.
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