How do I filter email and contacts with no Labels

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Luar

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Mar 23, 2007, 12:59:39 PM3/23/07
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Everyone can select and filter emails and contacts that have been
labeled or grouped, but I need to find those emails that I arquived
with no
label... How can I do this?

For the list of contacts, the problem is the same, I have most of
them
labeled (grouped), but I need to see only those that I haven´t
grouped
so I can classify them... How can I do this?


Sugestion: In the search options should be added a new type o filter,
"Not Labeled". Just like "Read and Unread"


Best regards,
Luar

Zack (Doc)

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Mar 23, 2007, 7:28:27 PM3/23/07
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That's a commonly discussed/requested search option (not labeled). I
list it with my suggestions most times I submit them, you should.

There's a greasemonkey script to build a not-labeled search, which is
basically "-label:a -label:b -label:c" etc. This is the only way to
do it currently.

There's not a way to search contacts like you're asking that I'm aware
of, but if you click "All Contacts" the groups' they are members of is
the first thing listed and in green so it shouldn't be too hard to
scan down and see which have no green group membership.

She don't knowdonaldagilligan@gmail.com

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Mar 24, 2007, 5:24:24 PM3/24/07
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Do your green contact group names also take up a whole line of their
own, even for just one word? My group names are showing up in grey
not green, and the group name makes my list twice as long, which seems
odd when there is so much room to the right of the email address. Is
there something in settings or something that will make my group names
green and on the same line as the contact address?

In addition to a "non-labelled" choice, I would like to be able to see
a master list of all my subjects, since I worry that I'll forget the
subject heading and not be able to search , and end up scanning the
vast and properly titled All(freakin)Mail! Just like there is a list
of labels, a list of groups, why not a list of subjects? Also, the
auto-fill for subjects would be nice too, since some may be longish.

I have seen the phrase "feature request form" and you mention
submitting your suggestions...would you tell us where to lodge such
requests/suggestions? Thank you!
p.s.How does that grease-monkey thing work?

On Mar 23, 4:28 pm, "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net> wrote:
> That's a commonly discussed/requested search option (not labeled). I
> list it with my suggestions most times I submit them, you should.
>
> There's a greasemonkey script to build a not-labeled search, which is
> basically "-label:a -label:b -label:c" etc. This is the only way to
> do it currently.
>
> There's not a way to search contacts like you're asking that I'm aware
> of, but if you click "All Contacts" the groups' they are members of is
> the first thing listed and in green so it shouldn't be too hard to
> scan down and see which have no green group membership.
>

Zack (Doc)

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Mar 24, 2007, 7:14:43 PM3/24/07
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Grease-monkey is an add-in to Firefox which lets you dynamically
modify web pages as you load them. Many people have written scripts
for GMail that run under Grease-monkey to modify the page as it loads,
adding such things as additional keyboard shortcuts, Mark as
Read/Unread buttons, locking the left menus in place, and persistent
searches. Since they modify the code of GMail as it loads, they are
not supported by Google and tend to fail when Google changes their
page, but can provide features people like without waiting for Google
to implement.

Oddly enough, I discovered something interesting in answering your
other question. If you search this forum for "Gmail Suggest" you'll
find where several people have posted the link to make official
suggestions at. I usually refer back to the simpler, "Every Beta
Tester should remember how to get there" and tell people to visit ANY
help page, and click "Contact Us" at the bottom. That yielded the two
most important beta tester links I know of, "Suggest a Feature" and
"Get help with a technical problem" which leads to a bug-report.
Lately, apparently, Google has removed the suggest a feature link from
that page. A quick search of help for "feature" yields you the link
quickly.

On 3/24/07, She don't knowdonal...@gmail.com

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