Re: How to change a subject in Gmail

[Jamel]

Hi,

Could you please let me know if there is a way to change the subject
in Gmail.

If there is no way, is it possible to submit enhancement to Gmail so
that this can be fixed.

Thanks,

Jamel

[Reid Burroughs]

Sorry hit the send button...  

Why not just start a fresh or new email/message to chosen recipients?

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[Zack (Doc)]

You can create new messages like Reid has suggested and the subject
line will be immediately visible. If you're replying, and feel the
need to change the subject, there's an "Edit Subject" link you can
click to get the subject line.

Note: Changing the subject too much will cause GMail to create a new
conversation typically.

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[JohnW]

Jamel,

Since you have direct input on messages you write, I shall ignore
messages you CREATE.
Therefore you must be asking about replies to messages sent to you.
If you look just under the e-mail address "To:" box, there's Add Cc,
Add Bcc, Edit Subject, and Attach a file.
If you click on Edit Subject it will do exactly what you ask.

[Andrew Ingraham]

One warning about using Reply but then changing the subject to create a new
thread (which you might want to do because you don't want to type in the
recipient's name):

Some email programs on your PC, that also group emails into conversations,
do it based on a Message ID line in the headers; and when you change the
subject line, your new message ends up buried in the previous
thread/conversation, and might not be noticed.

I used to do this, until someone pointed this out to me. Now I am careful
to create a new message and cut-and-paste the recipient address(es).

Andy

[Reid Burroughs]

Thank you Zack (Doc) I would have easily missed the Edit Subject funtion.    There is quite a bit of subtle features in gmail.

[Jamel]

Thank you all for the replies, it is very helpful.

Jamel

On Jan 9, 11:32 pm, "Reid Burroughs" <reid.burrou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Zack (Doc) I would have easily missed the Edit Subject funtion.
> There is quite a bit of subtle features in gmail.
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Ingraham

> <andrew.ingra...@gmail.com>wrote:

[Zack (Doc)]

You're replying to a message that's 3 years old about a compose window which has changed a couple of times since then, and most recently within the past month.  It looks completely different now than it did then.

Did you try in the help pages?  I searched "Edit Subject" and the first link was this:

http://goo.gl/kq6Ng

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:49 AM, depends <ray.am...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Zack, Reid:

sorry...

can't find "Edit Subject" anywhere...nor "From:" nor "To:"...

I'm using Google Chrome as browser and Windows 8 Pro...

and the screen shot is different from what is being displayed too...

Thx, baffled

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[Alvin]

I often find it handy to reply to one message in a gmail conversation and change the subject to start a new conversation. Use to be that to do that I clicked the Reply icon which brought up a Reply area, in the Reply area I clicked on the To field which changed the display, and then I would see little grey links "cc Bcc Subject" in the lower right.  Now all I see is "cc Bcc." This Topic prompted me to look again, and next to the To field there is a little box with the Reply icon and a down arrow-head.  Clicking that reveals a drop-down menu and one of the options is "Edit subject."  Putting that option there effectively hides it and means that something that was once obvious to new users would seem not to exist, and to experienced users would seem to have been removed.  Maybe I'm dense--well, some would say "maybe" isn't necessary--but a box with an icon and a down arrow-head didn't say drop-down menu to me, and even if it did, it wasn't intuitive that I would use it to find the "missing" option.

I hope this helps.  And here's my request to put the Subject link back where it was if only for the sake of new users.

[Andy]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Alvin <alvin.or...@gmail.com> wrote:

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I hope this helps.  And here's my request to put the Subject link back where it was if only for the sake of new users.

If you want to request it, you can't do that here.  This is a group of Gmail users like yourself, not Gmail developers nor Google employees.

Andy

[Alvin Orzechowski]

> > ...here's my request to put the Subject link back where it was if only for the sake of new users

> If you want to request it, you can't do that here...

Thank you for the reminder, Andy.

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[Marko Vukovic]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Alvin <alvin.or...@gmail.com> wrote:

I often find it handy to reply to one message in a gmail conversation and change the subject to start a new conversation.

Why don't you just start a new conversation by, I dunno, composing a new message?

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[Alvin Orzechowski]

> Why don't you just start a new conversation by, I dunno, composing a new message?

For many reasons, Marko, but here's one. I just replied to a client about a correction I made, and not only did I want to thank her for finding the problem, I needed to report it as a status change to the committee in charge.  Those e-mails get a formal Subject so that they can follow the day-to-day activity. Changing the Subject allows me to send one message instead of two.

Kapeesh?

[Marko Vukovic]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Alvin Orzechowski <alvin.or...@gmail.com> wrote:

For many reasons, Marko, but here's one. I just replied to a client about a correction I made, and not only did I want to thank her for finding the problem, I needed to report it as a status change to the committee in charge.  Those e-mails get a formal Subject so that they can follow the day-to-day activity. Changing the Subject allows me to send one message instead of two.

Kapeesh?

Haha kapiche!

I'm not sure how reporting a status change makes it a new conversation but also bear in mind that some systems (eg. list server) and/or readers will include the message in a conversation based on such headers as, for example, "In-Reply-To", and that a change of subject will not create a new thread on their end.

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[Laura Higdon]

I'm just curious if you had any luck with your suggestion to Gmail..

I am having a similar issue. I have to forward emails with attachments to several different customers. It would be so much easier if the subject line was automatically visible so that I didn't have to click the dropdown box each time to edit subject.

[Zack (Doc)]

My experience with suggestions to Google are that you don't get a response.  Either the suggestion becomes a new feature that's rolled out, or it doesn't.

My thought here is that someone, either internal to Google or external, had actually suggested the auto-hidden subject line; and that's why it is the way it is.

Have you considered an external mail client?  If you're regularly forwarding the same message to several different people, a mail client might have an easier way to do it than the web client offered natively for gmail.

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[Laura Higdon]

Unfortunately, that will not be an option as I forward different emails to one customer at a time daily.

thanks for the suggestion though

Thanks

Laura Higdon

Accounting

Lentus, LLC

[Alvin]

I don't remember if someone told me this or I stumbled on it, Laura, but here's how to change the Subject in a Gnail reply:

1. Click the e-mail's reply icon, the bent, left pointing arrow.
2. In the reply space that comes up the same icon appears next to the address, and between the icon and the address there is a small down pointing arrow head. Click it.
3. A drop down menu will appear, and one of the options is "Edit subject."  Click it and you're on your way.

Have a Happy New Year.


Alvin

[Laura Higdon]

Thanks Alvin,

i was actually aware of this drop down. This is what I am trying to get away from. Can you imagine having to click a drop down box every time for over 100 emails?? Gets kind of old and really time consuming. I just wish they would bring back the subject line as being visible like it was before.

Thanks

Laura Higdon

Accounting

Lentus, LLC

[Alvin]

It isn't just this, Laura.  I use the text modifiers quite a bit, and the extra clicks I have to go through now to do that are IRRITATING. Unfortunately the people who are behind these "improvements" are so vain they won't allow Gmail users to opt-out of them.  :-(

[Andy]

Why is it that an email client program is not an option?

An email client gives you a different user interface, and since that is the issue here, that would seem like your best option to correct this situation.

Andy

[Alvin]

Sorry, Andy, I don't understand this at all.


Alvin

[APB]

Laura, I also often have to forward messages with a different Subject.

I asked in a different thread if there was a keyboard shortcut for this, and learned that after you've hit F to forward, Shift-Tab (once or twice; once works for me) will put the focus on the drop-down where you can then use the Down arrow (5 times, for me) to get to the Edit subject option.

I've used this so much that it hardly takes any time any more.  Certainly it's faster than mousing.

Bonus tip: If you want to use the same subject but without the "Fwd", when the subject is highlighted, hitting Home will take you to the beginning of the line and deselect it; 5 hits of the Delete key gets rid of the "Fwd:
.

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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Laura Higdon <lhi...@lentusllc.com> wrote:

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[Andy]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Alvin <alvin.or...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, Andy, I don't understand this at all.

Alvin, I was responding to Laura's statement that an external email client "will not be an option as I forward different emails to one customer at a time daily."

Andy

[Alvin]

Alright, Andy, it does make a little more sense now.

May I suggest you use names when posting a reply?

Have a Terrific Thursday.


Alvin

[Marko Vukovic]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

Why is it that an email client program is not an option?

An email client gives you a different user interface, and since that is the issue here, that would seem like your best option to correct this situation.

Indeed, I agree. 

Mozilla Thunderbird is a great, free and community-driven solution. One can even edit a message 'as new' to send on, thereby eliminating the 'Fwd:' in the subject, and '-------- Original Message --------' in the message body. This is made even easier with keyboard shortcuts (also customizable).

There is even an extensive support system, powered by volunteers.

Laura, it is also not advisable to use free Gmail for business. You should consider using the business version which gives you access to support directly from Google.

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[Marko Vukovic]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Alvin <alvin.or...@gmail.com> wrote:

It isn't just this, Laura.  I use the text modifiers quite a bit, and the extra clicks I have to go through now to do that are IRRITATING. Unfortunately the people who are behind these "improvements" are so vain they won't allow Gmail users to opt-out of them.  :-(

We have been through this argument many times. The reason cited by Google make perfect sense (to me anyway). http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/introducing-new-compose-in-gmail.html

What extra clicks? It is *one single click* to bring up the formatting options. If you set your compose window to default to 'full-screen' then they are always visible.

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[Laura Higdon]

Thanks so much for this! That helps alot!

Thanks

Laura Higdon

Accounting

Lentus, LLC